PLUGIN UPDATE: Alive v74 (files) (Patreon)

ANIMATION PLAYER

I did lots of big but very quick changes for the animation player in v73 and unfortunately messed up some stuff, animations were bugged when the person atom was rotated. In v74 it should be in better shape. The ultimate goal is to get something like an edit button on animations and let you create clips (sort of like the presets in body actions), pieces of the existing animations, and let you do a choreography kind of thing, like a timeline with drag and drop functionality. I'm also trying to get the BVH animation system to be fluid enough to tie it in to the AI chat and let characters do seamless animation with it, as reactions to the chat. It's a very huge task and I'm not sure if I'll get to do all that but I'm trying to sneak it along with other things, that's why I keep messing up with this system.

BODY MOTION PRESETS & FOLLOW MODE

The two huge new features from v73 had a couple of bugs that should be fixed now. Presets should now save properly randomization options too. Follow mode should unfreeze properly and prevent keeping the model in a frozen state (where controllers would snap back to their originally frozen position)

EXPRESSIONS

I'm doing lots of things on this front but it's work in progress. It's hard! And also I can't work on this project too much. But generally the animations should be better. Characters do a lot more now emotion wise, they're more expressive and I fixed many of the bugs regarding morph twitches that used to happen in most previous version. A downside might be performance-wise for some people. The animations are higher-quality but that's at the cost of more operations per second for now. I'll try to review that and optimize it in future updates or add something like an option for lower/higher quality settings.

OBJECT TRACKING

V74 introduces automatic object tracking for the first time in ALIVE. Previously this required setting up an extra plugin on objects. Now it's seamless and brings more life to characters without any work. For now this is just for objects that you move: characters will look at things that you are dragging around. I'll try to tie it in to static objects too from the scene in future versions.

I didn't have a lot of time to test v74 as a whole so there might be a smaller update later this week if I find any big bugs. If you notice any issues or have any suggestions or requests, let me know!

ALIVE CHANGELOG 

Full Alive changelogs can be found here .

CREDITS: https://www.patreon.com/posts/61736572

INSTRUCTIONS

• Alive Starter Common Issues Guide

• Alive Youtube Tutorials

AI

• Guide for Oobabooga Text Generation WebUI  (chat AI)

• TextAudioTool (my tool made for STT and TTS in vam)

DEPENDENCIES

There are no dependencies, ALIVE should work without any of these vars but they're recommended for the best experience in vam and for more morphs & animations. They're all free VAM addons.

• ascorad.asco_Expressions.12.var

• AshAuryn.AshAuryn_Sexpressions_2_Point_0.4.var

• AshAuryn.Expressions.5.var

• AshAuryn.Pose_Tools.4.var

• Jackaroo.JarModularExpressions.2.var

• SPQR.AnimationsPack.1.var

• Alive Home extra scene (optional scene, needs Alive running for interaction with the scene)

V74 FILES (active supporters)

SPQR.SPQRAlive.74.var