PREVIEW: Alive v36 & AI chat news (Patreon)

ALIVE V36

A new update for Alive should be coming in the next couple of days.  Some of the new things included in the new version:

SCENE OBJECTS

This includes a hierarchy of the atoms in the scene, quick actions for them and the ability to add new atoms. The plan for this system is to allow bulk-operations on atoms and to have a library of objects to add to the scene: all the vanilla vam atom plus assetbundles like toys, furnitures, etc.

PRETTY COMMANDS

I started working on the interaction side of things and added options for the look-at commands. The plan is to have panels where you can see all the active commands grouped together and have more options for them like individual speeds for the body movement commands (thrust, ride, vibe, etc)

DESKTOP UI SIZE & HELP ARTICLES

Added the logic to allow changing the UI size for desktop. I plan to do that for VR too soon. I also started preparing the help section where there will be articles/guides about how the plugin works.

OBJECT-RELATED POSING

I posted about this earlier too, it's the new menu allowing to do commands like Sit on chair in V36. This should be included as well but it will likely be an experimental feature. There are physics explosions I get sometimes and I've been working on fixing that but I haven't been able to figure it out so far.

AI CHAT NEWS

I noticed many people liked my recent AI chatbot post so I'll work more on that and I'm planning to release the first version this month. There's more that can be done with that than I previously thought and I think there are going to be a few very cool features to link the dialogue to the model and what's happening in VAM -  which I often said it's too difficult and nobody will do it in vam anytime soon when people brought it up. I was wrong and understimated how smart some of this AI stuff will get. Mea culpa!