[align=center] -- Vāc VI -- [/align]
[align=left]Space is large, dangerous and lonely. Ship systems are increasingly complex, making management more and more difficult - especially in stressfull situations. There are a lot of switches, buttons and levers that can - under the right circumstances - decide between life or death.
So whether you are overwhelmed by the mechanisms of your ship or simply long for some company along your journey, Vāc VI is at your service!
Capable of managing your ship systems and reacting to sensor data autonomously or on your command, this ship assistant can greatly help you overcome any obstacle and make your life in space that much easier.[/align]
[align=center] I am Vāc - your personal ship assistant and companion on your journey through the Evochron universe![/align]
[align=center]>> Download here <<[/align]
Changelog
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Version 0.96-beta.1:
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- "Ship System Control" plugin:
- added more functionalities
- VI now automatically warns about incoming hostiles and increasing damage to the ship (at 75%, 50% and 25% hull integrity)
- Manual thruster speed control (0%, 10%, 20%, ... , 100%) now possible in Evochron Legacy
- Manual shield/Weapon energy bias control now possible in Evochron Mercenary and Legacy
- Manual target selection now possible in Evochron Mercenary and Legacy
- Targeting objects now possible in Evochron Legacy
- fixed altitude for safe jumping out of planetary atmospheres in Evochron Legacy
- fixed typos and updated plugin information for all plugins
- added new plugin: "VI Health"
- distorts the VI's speech and scrambles displayed with increasing damage to the ship
- the logo image for this plugin is not yet finished and will be added soon
- added current version number to the configurator's "About" tab
Version 0.95-beta.1:
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- First release for testing and feedback purposes
Vāc is an external program that acts as a voice command software and game overlay that I have been working on for a little more than a month now. It can receive voice commands, issue key-presses and provide audible feedback via text-to-speech. If you know Voice Attack, this concept is nothing new to you.
The difference here however lies within the usage of in-game data, as well as the aforementioned overlay.
To see what you can do with that, let's have a look at the...
Features
- Issue voice commands for greater ease of use
- Overlay for in-game use:
- Displays the VI's status and spoken dialog
- Gives hints about the ways in which the player can responds to a certain peace of dialog
- Matches overlay color to in-game HUD color automatically
- Uses Evochron in-game data:
- Automatic actions based on in-game events
- Allows for extraction of in-game data, as soon as it is updated
- Allows for more complex dialogs that react to events and stati within the game
- Special dialog syntax allowing for easy and fast creation of varied dialog lines
- Automatic extraction of game controls - no manual keyboard configuration necessary
- Third party plugin support
You can, for example:
- request information about your current location or target
- tell the VI to automatically fire a missile on neutral or hostile targets, as soon as you have a lock-on
- tell the VI to jump, manually or automatically, as soon as your ship's energy has filled
- ask the VI about it's favorite food
- request a ship damage report
- open/close various consoles (nav, trade, inventory, ...)
- set the IDS speed multiplier
- ... and more!
You can download the program itself from the GitHub release page.
Before using the program I highly recommend reading the user manual on OneDrive for more details about the program and how to use it!
Contribute to the project!
Want to enhance the VI's capabilities with new plugins? Want to improve or simply laugh at my source code? - I've got you covered!
Check out the manuals on OneDrive for more detailed information about the program, plugin development and source code! You can also visit the project on GitHub, if you want to contribute to the project!
Known bugs and issues
The following aspects do not quite work yet and will be improved in the future:
- For now, the program can only access keyboard controls - controls assigned to the mouse or joystick are not used by the program yet!
- Some controls, that require the press of the Alt-key (e.g. jumping at maximum range) may not work on high framerates
- Native commands for this program are not yet completed and may contain bugs
- Native voice commands are available in English only for now, however support for different languages is planned for the future
- Currently available voice commands now are pretty few and quite restricted - they might be expanded on in the future
Feel free to ask them in the thread below, or send me an e-mail at [email protected]
Special thanks to Nihilus66 for creating the graphics for this program!