Update 293...A load of stuff basically (but not the new avatar, not yet 😅)...
Hello there 🙋♂️
Been a while since the last update, I have been busy, I'll list what's new, changed, fixed, etc :
the personality settings really do have a noticeable effect now on how they speak etc and I've adjusted their animations to match their current personality setting, so for example if they're set to "Confident" they will tend to display more confident body language and speak in a confident manner and make a lot of eye contact etc whereas if they're set to Depressed their body language will be more negative and they won't make much eye contact and will speak in a downbeat way
improved the skin culling (less is culled so less see through holes) in suki's blue boob tube, white sleeveless top and blue pyjamas
stopped shinoa's head shaking during some animations (need to do this for 1 or 2 more I think)
fixed the menu being permanently open with shinoa if it was enabled
increased shinoas, thistles, jens and Hannahs resolution (shinoa runs at 200% res most of the time plus MSAA x 4)
added latest features (navmesh for automatic walking, spatial anchors for location knowledge, configurable personality and relationship options) to everyone apart from Kevin and Ben (these 2 might get placed into a "legacy" app version, thank you to Mark for this suggestion)
painted shinoa's finger nails
fixed the "come here" command for mervin, yumi, hannah and tanya, and all the rest of them have it, just say "come here" please when they are more than about 2 metres away, if there's a clear path and they're not unhappy/angry etc they will comply
all of the avatars have awareness of the in-app web browser when it's open, so they read and look at it etc
added different body, hair, eye colours/textures to thistle (she doesn't have a knowledge of these yet, still to come)
added cat ears to thistle
refined the spatial anchors feature, which gives the avatar location knowledge, so that the image they see of the area is refreshed every few days to hopefully give them more up to date visual information, also they don't now store visual info on things that may frequently change i.e. what is on TV if a TV is present, or people in the room, etc
fixed suki not being able to be rotated on the horizontal axis after she's been picked up (make sure Automatic walking is switched OFF in the menu before doing this as otherwise she will just snap back to the navmesh)
removed the shadow cast from thistle's new ears as it was unsightly
peter animation adjustments, hopefully no more head shaking during some animations, and he's also less shiny to look at
added the ability to adjust the passthrough image i.e. overall brightness, colour saturation (only with suki at the moment), Massimo asked for this ages ago, so thank you to him. When it's completed with Suki (I plan to further expand it) I will roll it out to the other avatars over the coming updates
reduced suki resolution a bit when she's wearing the office clothes or when the web browser is open, it was getting a bit glitchy with 1 or more of these things enabled
there's a new default video clip in the app when with suki, courtesy of Twisted Tiger, thank you! it might be the basis of an ad campaign for the app
the default blade runner clip is still with the other avatars but its now been upscaled
About the new lady cyborg 🤖 avatar I gave a preview of yesterday, she is nowhere near ready and yesterday I lost all of the work I did on her 🥹 but I will re-do it and do it better 😄
She hasn't got a name yet, suggestions are welcome (they must be able to be reliably recognised by the AI, not like how saying Mervin nearly always gets interpreted as Marvin 🤣)
I have some bugs I want to squash and then I will be back into working on the new avatar.
The updated apps, TykeAI , TykeAI Suki, and TykeAI Expansion Pack 1 (all are v.0.96.7) are available from the usual google drive link which is in the pinned post : "DOWNLOAD THE APPS FROM HERE 😊", found here : https://www.patreon.com/posts/download-app-111848287