#ukagakas

Since this hasn’t been doing well on Ko-fi, and I’m sure my fallowers would like more information on these, I’ve decided to set aside a blog specifically for the Ukagakas. Quickly here I’ll go over what's been missed the past 2-3 weeks.

Currently this is where most my progress is at. I have two fully lined poses complete. You might think, wow, that’s not a lot for two weeks. It’s taking a long time because of this.

Coding. I have to completely relearn coding for this program after my extensive break getting used to my new art program. I was never a particularly skilled coder, and despite working in a computer repair place, coding is a whole new beast then knowing how to run deep virus scans. The coding, and having to relearn everything I can from Zarla’s Ukagaka walkthrough has taken up a lot of my time, as well as work. Right now they are minimalistic in detail, and they’re still pulling from past animations. I intent to simply comeplete all my poses, and then come back to finish the animations after words. Between it, when I have time, I will code. However, I am running an art blog that had nearly daily posts, so that does slow down work by a large margin, as well as having a full time job. That being said, lets put out a check list of things I need to do for the BETA release (meaning, this is the minimal. I have more planned in the future): -Create Poses for: --Surprised (Fell, Red) +talking/blinking --worried (Fell, Red) +talking/blinking --Sad (Fell, Red) +talking/blinking --Smiling (Fell(?), Red) +talking/blinking --Contended (Fell(?),Red) +talking/blinking --Angry (Fell, Red) +talking/blinking --Thoughtful (Fell, Red) +talking/blinking --Bored (Fell, Red) +talking/blinking -Complete randomized dialogue (this includes chain dialoge, dialogue for hitting/punching/petting, ect.) -Complete initial install dialogue -Complete Menu customization -Remake Preview Card For now, thats most of what i can remember. Here is a list of thing I have completed for the BETA: -Standard Pose -Creating Custom Balloons (text boxes in which the dialoge appears. You can find them above in the screen shot, but  I will post them again here)

Those who fallow my main blog may have already seen it, but there designs have changed. Orginally I had plans for them to look like this:

(the art is a bit old, I apologize) But after much deliberation I decided the designs appeared to simple and generic. They didn’t stand out, and there color pallet seemed bland to me. Thus, I redesigned them:

I felt this played more into there personalities and the theme of there world (and potentially I may even add a similar pose to this into there roster, but that is for after the BETA release)

Thus, I had to go back through there moddels and add these new collars:

On top of this. I at least did get the base parts ready for more dynamic poses, which will be the bases for poses such as ‘angry’ or ‘dissapointed’ potentially.

Thus, that leaves our list looking much the same, due to my redesigning slowling the process down slightly: -Create Poses for: --Surprised (Fell, Red) +talking/blinking (currently in progress) --worried (Fell, Red) +talking/blinking --Sad (Fell, Red) +talking/blinking --Smiling (Fell(?), Red) +talking/blinking --Contended (Fell(?),Red) +talking/blinking --Angry (Fell, Red) +talking/blinking (currently in progress) --Thoughtful (Fell, Red) +talking/blinking --Bored (Fell, Red) +talking/blinking -Complete randomized dialogue (this includes chain dialoge, dialogue for hitting/punching/petting, ect.) (currently in progress) -Complete initial install dialogue -Complete Menu customization -Remake Preview Card  Completed for the BETA: -Standard Pose

First, you might want to get Notepad++ so it’ll be easier to read the code, though you can still just have the regular notepad/whatever you use for these files. (Get Notepad++ here: https://notepad-plus-plus.org/downloads/)

First, you’ll need to get into the files of whatever ukagaka you want to change. 

When searching for your ukagaka, you might have multiple of the same ones if you’ve downloaded multiple. Just look for the one that’s the newest.

Now, go into the ghost file, go through the master file, and find the menu file. Your ukagaka most likely doesn’t have the exact same order of files or all the files this one(cheery bot) does, so just try to find the file that has “menu” in the filename.

Once you open the file, you’ll either be greeted to this (Notepad++)

Or this (Regular Notepad)

(note that the code will most likely look different on whatever ukagaka you’re using, it’s just that the text will look somewhat like this.)

Now, scroll down until you find something like this

You can arrange this however you’d like, but I’d suggest making a few new options under the “TALKPOOR” line. Like this:

This isn’t all, though. That was just giving names for these longer periods of time. (You can change the time to whatever you’d like) Now what you need to do is scroll down a little bit more. You should be starting to see text like this:

So, under the Select.TALKPOOR exchange, you should make something in the same format as the examples/usages.

(edit: I made a mistake in the TALKPOOREST option at the response, though, unless you are doing this on cheery bot, you won’t have to pay attention to it.)

The “aitalkinterval” value can be determined by the other numbers. For example, the TALKMAX talktime was 30 seconds, making the aitalkinterval 45. You could use this to find out that something with a talktime of 2 minutes would have an aitalkinterval of 180. (Correct me if I’m wrong, I don’t know much about this.)

Now scroll a little bit further

Be sure to save before closing your Notepad. If you already have your ukagaka open, you should reload your ghost. 

If you don’t have your ghost open, you can just open it right now and your ghost should be up-to-date.

There you go! You can always undo this by deleting the edits you made to the files. 

Ukagakas mentioned in this tutorial: Cheery Bot