Talas is not gentle but Talas have a heart

Cobble have an heart too. :>
Progress: before continuing with the other sounds, I wanted to finish the heart triggering and synchronization in multiplayer.

About heart triggering, the BPM will now adapt to the character's activity and actions.
Here in the video, it adapts to the player's gain and stance.
For Talas, it will adapt to his actions and situation, whether he lies in bed, walks, or tries to stomp a micro, etc.

For multiplayer, the simplest way would be to send a request at every beat. But that would produce a lot of network traffic.
Instead, I use some math to calculate a deterministic heartbeat using the BPM and server time. Then I progressively resync the local heartbeat by adding or removing time between beats. You can see the resync in the video debug menu.
That way, I send zero network requests and the heartbeats remain perfectly synchronized.

All that techs just for Talas Digestive System. :>
(Spoiler if you don't want to know the true environment shape)

Progress with audio zones and ambiances variations.

Poll for v0.4.9

Just a reminder that the vote ends in 2 days! :3
https://www.bleuraven.fr/posts/12793964
(Repost in the correct chanel)

I worked on my interaction system to make it support hold interactions. This will be used in the digestive system to interact with the flesh walls.

Before, the system focused on simple interaction triggers, but now I manage the action type and interaction state to know who is holding an interaction, whether the player needs to release a previous interaction before starting a new one, whether a VR player can press the same button with both hands, etc.

I also updated the gameplay sounds to give better feedback for the actions.

That also works in multiplayer and VR of course.

Physics :>
Now with the new interaction changes I can do that.

For now during 3 days I will focus on the devblog, the poll post and my Rig Generator. :3
Then I will be back to add more physics in Talas Digestive System.

I progressed with my rig generator.
If you followed the devblog, you know how the rig generator evolved.

- I started with a simple rig generator for Talas.
- With MMVS v0.4.0 I added an option with several presets for multiple characters.
- Later I redid it to make it modular with layers of executions. (Every layer adding more logic to the rig.)
- Then I moved the layer execution to node execution. (Making it possible to create groups of nodes and manage branches of execution.)

And here I did new base to manage nodes with properties. For the moment I added a simple property boolean, string, etc.
Currently every execution node applies changes to the rig with static properties.
Now it will be possible to manage the properties with nodes as well and add more logic with data combinations and conditions.
The next step will be to redo all execution nodes to use the new data nodes and properties.

MMVS v0.4.9 Poll Result

Hello!
The vote for the MMVS v0.4.9 is now closed.
And the winner is... AI Improvements with 49.4% of the total votes!

Please read the full post for more details here: https://www.bleuraven.fr/posts/42453485
A big thank you to everyone who participated in the vote and helped shape the direction of MMVS for update 0.4.9!

I'm making progress, but I still can't work on MMVS at the moment. I really need to update my tools for Unreal Engine 5.8 because other people are waiting for them. x_x
- I need to update my Blockout Starter Pack.
- My Blender for Unreal Engine addon.
- Then finish the rig addon.
- Then I need to start an MMVS bible for concept arts and additional artists.
- Finish MMVS v0.4.7 with the vore update, of course.
- And the devblog, which is very late.

This is just to keep you informed about why everything is slow at the moment.

"Blockout Starter Pack" and "Blender for Unreal Engine" done.