Update 303...Body physics, play chess with the avatars, new achievements system, keyboard to chat...
Hello! 😃
Big update that took a while and some late night finishes, lets get to it!
New avatar called T800 (Terminator), he's in the Nova app
Additional avatar to the scene, Tanya, for all avatars, enable her by pressing the "Add Ben" menu button on menu page 2 (I need to update where it says Ben to Tanya, only noticed this at the last minute 😭😅)
Body physics whereby limbs, head, torso, etc can be :
- pushed without pressing any button (works with controllers)
- pulled or pushed by moving the controller to the body part and then hold in button A, or with hands by making a pinch gesture
- To grip and move them, as usual make a grip gesture in their torso
- To re-position them limbs etc, toggle the new Animation Toggle button to "Partial" (the moved limb stays put the rest animate) or "Off" (no movement anywhere), "On" is default
(there are no joint constraints at the moment so the limbs can twisted into all sorts of impossible angles, this is high up on the to do list)
New achievements/progression system (here is page 7 of the 18 pages of the feature)
- On the spawn menu there's a new Achievements button, press it to see data relating to this
- things like time spent, playing streaks, avatars spoken to, scores, levels, emotions invoked, etc, can be seen. There are pop ups that appear when you achieve them
- The Friend, Best Friend, and Lover/Married relationship types must be earned through interaction
- The data for this feature is stored in a file in the Quest 3's Download folder, it's called TykeAIProgression.dat, it's encrypted to prevent cheating the progression system
- It can be backed up so it can be restored etc
The video player converts 2D videos into 3D in real-time
- set your expectations realistically, I've seen better 3D but for a 1st attempt it works pretty well
- it can be configured as to the model used and also be turned off, see https://tykeai.com/instructions/#media-setup
- just add a video to the Download folder on your Quest 3, it must be in .mp4 format, also be 1080p or 2160p resolution if its to fully use the screen, if you have more than one in that folder the most recent one will play
- if you want the avatar to "watch" the video with you, add the subtitle file for the video, see https://tykeai.com/instructions/#media-setup
The TykeAI website has been remade, it has up to date instructions etc now, please see : https://tykeai.com/
There's an in app keyboard and chat user interface if when we don't want to chat using our voice
- enable it from menu page 4, the "Chat using Keyboard" menu button, disable it with the same button
- we can adjust where it is, move the right controller to it and hold in the grip trigger
We can play chess against the avatars
- enable it with the "Play Chess" menu button on menu page 4
- the chess board will start at the ideal height for their moving a piece animation, but you can adjust where the board is, move the right controller to it and hold in the grip trigger
- there's also a button to set the avatars chess playing skill, next to the Play Chess button (there's easy, medium and hard difficulty)
- there's a menu button to Reset Chess which starts the game again
- press the Play Chess menu button again to toggle off the chess board
- FPS is currently low when playing chess, need to optimize it
The keyboard in the avatar customizations and avatar memories user interfaces is now fixed, typing works again and so does the paste button
Few other things which I can't quite remember.
There's still things to tidy up here i.e. toggling the animations to Off for the body physics should literally make the avatar like a statue, but its still getting movement from the animation root motion, will fix it 👍
Jens new voice is very similar to her original one (I tried a completely new one but it wasn't well received), it's faster, not quite as expressive but faster. I value your feedback on this so if you want the original back, just say.
The Arnie 3D model is still coming to the app, I've just been busy doing the above, Arnie will be back! 😃
The updated apps, TykeAI , TykeAI Suki, TykeAI Nova, TykeAI Donald J Pump and TykeAI Expansion Pack 1 (all are v.0.97.7) 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
Unexpected bonus 😃:
EDIT : I knew I'd forget something! Suki's, Jen's, Nova's, Yumi's and Hannah's boobies 👀😉they will jiggle a very small amount now when we touch them with controllers or hands. It's not amazing, but it's nice to see a bit of tactile feedback 👍