WIP: Alive v8 (Patreon)

Alive v8 should be coming this weekend as planned. New features:

COMMANDS
This is a new system that's going to help with a lot of things in Alive like procedural animations, gestures and events in general. There's only one command for now, Vibe, which does what I was experimenting with in the Alice demo scene and with the music videos, makes the person vibe/dance. You issue the command Vibe, she vibes. You issue the command again, she stops vibing. Commands can be issues by triggers, therefore linked with stuff like extratriggers for custom touch-UI or other plugins like voice commands, or directly from the plugin UI. I plan on doing a bigger more game-like general UI where commands would tie in very well, sort of like in Sims, but i don't know when or if i'll get to do all that. This new system will come in very handy in the next versions where I plan to add some basic commands that I always wanted in vam like close eyes, open mouth, twerk,etc.  the essentials.

BREATHING
I know there are a dozen of plugins out there doing life-immersion stuff many of you are very fond of. I'd love to reuse them and concentrate on new features instead of reinventing the wheel. Unfortunately I'm forced to do it to move fast and get big features done quicker. I'd waste a lot of time trying to figure out what other people are doing and why and finding ways to tie it all in with Alive. And those features would be kind of stuck in a void anyway, it would be too difficult to start remixing other plugins and glue it all together. And some don't allow it anyway.  I'd rather do my own thing and move fast. An example of that is breathing coming in v8. There's a new breathing rate mechanic, breathing becomes faster when the arousal increases and cools down with time.

CLIMAX
There's a new climax functionality coming in v8 too. There's more work to be done on this front but this adds a bit more interaction, more sounds and a cooldown on arousal after climax is reached and something new to play with!