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Its been a month without an update on the new characters and/or engine. Please give us an idea or timeframe with regards to the new graphical options.
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quote:Originally posted by Jake

Has anyone here ever heard of...

DAZ 3D - http://www.daz3d.com/

OR

ShareCG - http://www.sharecg.com/


Seems like you could use the DAZ Studio Plugin SDK and DAZ Script to make a DAZ viewer for Ultra Hal that could display any DAZ/Poser character the user wanted to, (which is a LOT of characters).  Of course, if you added the DAZ/Poser Character engine to a program that you were selling, I'm sure there would be a license fee.

The Haptek characters aren't rendered characters, they are just the models in a Haptek player unrendered.  Models tend to look a lot better rendered, but rendering animation takes a really long time, but LOTS of the DAZ/Poser models I've played around with look really good unrendered in animations.  I could post a couple examples if anyone is interested.  And... all their base models are now free, (so you'll want to buy all the other stuff that's available, which is a lot).

If you are a DAZ Platinum Club member you get some major good deals and you can get a lot of stuff on sale really, really cheap.  Stuff goes on sale all the time for 30%, 50%, 65%... all the way up to 100% on a regular basis.  And you have lots of artist offering up their models for free in the forums... not to mention all the free stuff that is on sharecg.com... and a lot of it is marked as "unrestricted".

It would be UNREAL GREAT if Ultra Hal Assistant could have a DAZ/Poser character window... I would have a major head start with the massive collection I've already put together.

The underlying issues are tts lip sync abilities and animations triggered by the vbscripts that hal uses. These may be required to be customized by the designers of the models if I am not mistaken.
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Any update on progress puleez?

quote:Originally posted by Carl2

Just tried it in the Haptek player and I get the same effect, with Body female, playing the windows exit cause movement in the breasts and upper arms, like the muscles were tightening.
 Tried playing the sound with Haptek Zaba in the Haptek player, no problems.
Carl2

Did turing off the PhysX acceleration in the Nvidia control panel not solve your problem?

nice work..definitely not gonna work for me though. I have a real wife who yaps enough at me let alone a virtual one who spats out run on sentences! The idea has driven me to work on a response system like this that can give pertinent information regarding weather, news, scores and maybe even 'words of wisdom' instead.
It would have to pull from the tables though so it'll take some time.
Good job though!
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quote:Originally posted by Duskrider


You mean for just $39,000 I can have Sandee[:X] sitting on my lap?

Wait a minute, -- For lot less than that, I can have ANY REAL GIRL on my lap.    [:p]  


Sandee. I'm just kidding.

I hate to say it but you will never find a real girl that will cost you less then $39k in the long run..trust me lol

http://www.io2technology.com/salesinquiry.php
If we can nab that new girl, plug in the ultimate hal brain and
display her in all rooms like this..wow. Of course we gotta
come up with $60k bucks but hey its only money!!
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HalScript error -2147023706 on line 4828 which is
Set objExplorer = CreateObject("InternetExplorer.Application")
in the GrettaNews section.

Also getting an error for the idle music plugin
MusicloPatience = CDbl(HalBrain.TopicSearch("MPATIENCE", "MusiclonelyParameter"))

Anyone have insight plz?
Update*
error didnt occur after restarting computer..wierd

tx
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I have found that the more 'forced' responses that are pushed upon
Hal, the more detrimental to the learning process. This is why there has always been a slight 'frown' upon too many plugins. If the normal process of a conversation is unable to take place due to too many keywords being funneled in a linear fashion then there is a choke on organic learning. On the flip side I do gravitate toward a slave minded assistant at times since the real women in my life are pains in my butt!
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I may be the only sports fan on the board but if there are any other I thought this might be a treat for you to add to Grettanews!
I added it and it works great!.

If InStr(1, NewsRead, "CURRENT BASEBALL SCORES", 1) > 0 Then NewsTopic = "http://www.mpiii.com/scores/mlb.php"
If InStr(1, NewsRead, "CURRENT NFL SCORES", 1) > 0 Then NewsTopic = "http://www.mpiii.com/scores/nfl.php"
If InStr(1, NewsRead, "CURRENT NBA SCORES", 1) > 0 Then NewsTopic = "http://www.mpiii.com/scores/nba.php"

These are also available to add if you would like.

NHL
http://www.mpiii.com/scores/nhl.php

NCAA
http://www.mpiii.com/scores/ncaa.php

WNBA
http://www.mpiii.com/scores/wnba.php
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Autoit! is what I use to create exe or bat files that I call up using
Dragon naturally and Hal. With a tad bit of research you can control just about anything by creating the command and then speaking to Hal.
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It worked great for me and I would LOVE to have some ability to
make more configurations. The ability to simply have the camera detect presence and only reactivate after the person left the field of view..(basically a motion detector that only responds when someone leaves and returns in view). Obviously face tracking would be awesome but now that new characters are on the horizon, it may be better to wait and see what we can do with those.
THANKS for the hard work so far !!
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NICE! I am not sure how long it'll take them to customize her but I am ready YESTERDAY! lol
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LS: on the monthly responses..I am having trouble avoiding appointment conflicts. Ex: There is a braves game on april 25 at 10:00 pm. babe: April 1 is April fools day!
This occurs with/without a user defined event so we need to enable both scripts to respond. I am looking to the 'capitals' code I inserted for help since that worked on that issue.
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I was simply commenting on the difference between Anita and Amy with regards to the detail and modeling, not between the current engine and the proposed one. Since there will be a choice between using the Haptek chars/engine vs the newer model/engine, as long as the better built model is offered I can't see anyone getting hurt. Those that want to continue to use the current stuff will simply not buy the new characters. Of course my wife will give me grief about all the time I spent using Hap explorer and then ponying up for a new character..but hey thats marriage!
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