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Character controls

• - movement: W,A,S,D
• - jump: Space
• - toggle run/walk: Shift
• - zoom in/out: scroll
• - look around: hold left click and drag mouse
• - toggle sound mute: M

Free camera controls

• - movement: W,A,S,D,R,F
• - rotate camera: Q,E
• - look around: hold left click and drag mouse

Well the UI is meant to be shown on 16:9 screen, also I had no clue about JoiPlay, but I am not sure if anything can "emulate" Hornycraft properly, because it is not just JS + HTML client code game, it also uses node + nwjs API for save/load + python backend for AI chat stuff, so it was meant to be run by double click on launch-hc.exe. But if atleast most of the game can run with JoiPlay that's some good news. I managed to run HC on a PC that's more than 10 years old, it had Windows 10 and the usual like DirectX, Visual C++ Runtime, dotNET framework and dotNET runtime (the usual stuff you want installed on a Windows so games and software can work)

RAM shouldn't be an issue, maybe a few gigabytes

You should play in free mode then, since there is no heavy start load like in story mode.

I believe an average gaming PC from 2015 should be enough.

Some people say earth is flat as well. No it's just .dll from NWJS used to run web apps as desktop apps, I have been using the same files downloaded from official nwjs website since May 2022, I am pretty sure there are no viruses there. If it had any virus I guess I would be the first victim since I am using these files for more than 3 years now, but I never had any issues with my PC, so I am pretty sure it's safe to use. Also alot of people on F95 downloaded countless times these files over past years and no one reported any virus in files. So that link seems like BS.

Im happy that you are happy.

I could, but as I explained earlier I don't want to limit player's profile design with limited number of offered options, since LLM's work based on input text I gave user full freedom to decide what text will be send to their LLM, the structure and content of text can affect greatly the end output from LLM, since user can now use any LLM I can't possibly predict which one will user use now, so I just gave user the complete freedom to design their profile.

> This game needs a detailed tutorial for each version.

Not really, very few tiny details changed since the recording of tutorial videos and current version, everything works more or less like shown in the videos.

> When I try to chat, I get an error message.

I am pretty sure the error message tells you what you are doing wrong, I made them for a reason

> Creating an AI profile and saving it doesn't do anything

exactly because it is only used when you engage in AI chat, otherwise it serves no purpose, so nothing should happen when you create it, it's just text stored in memory

> clicking ADD NPC just closes the window and nothing happens.

it should close UI window and add a NPC character near the location of your camera


I am sorry, but I can't really help you much, I understand UI is not very clear and simple sometimes, and that game can be buggy. But I am sure if you give it some time and play around you fill figure out how things work.

The old UI for AI profile had many input fields to set values for different RP profile parameters.

Age: ###.
Name: ###.
Class: ###.

The reason why I now placed all these fields inside one textbox is because I want to give user to have full control over structure of data that will be feed into LLM AI, since in last update I made the game to work with whatever language model you want to use. Also it gives more creative freedom to user for setting up the AI profile, since you can make it look however you want.

Text being feed to AI from game looks like this.

System Prompt + Profile 1 + Profile 2 + Chat History

So, long story short instead of limiting you to a form with hardcoded fields, now you have freedom to design your profile anyhow you like with whatever text and paramters you want.

So If you want to maintain the given structure just replace ### with actual data describing your character's parameters, example:

Age: 25.
Name: Noren.
Class: Assassin.

In the end it doesn't even matter how your AI Profile text looks like, some LLM's might understand better one structure or another, but structure isn't important here, just put any text anyhow you want to describe your character in there.