¶ Toggle Modes
With CHIM we want to provide you many options to interact with AI NPCs in meaningful ways.
However we want to keep the control scheme simple so you don't have to have a million hotkeys.
So we developed the wheel system. This allows you to interact with the many systems.
The master wheel allows you to access all settings from a single hotkey.
¶ Standard
Standard mode is just the normal way you interact with AI NPCs. It will be as if your player character is speaking with the NPCs.
¶ Whisper
Similar to standard but only NPCs which are very close can hear the conversation. People from across the room will not interupt.
¶ Director
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The director acts as the “God Head” for CHIM. They will guide AI NPCs in role-playing scenes together. They use the JSON connector for generating content.
Currently there are 2 primary interactions they are used for:
- Smart Bored Events: This will use the Director to generate a conversation topic for a random nearby NPC to start.
This is how “radiant” conversations begin between NPCs without player interaction.
After the initial bored event the rest of the conversation is carried out by the Rechat system. - Director Mode Toggle: The director mode will allow you to talk directly to the game director.
It is a simple MCM toggle. When in director mode anything said will go directly to the director for them to fulfil.
The director can target 1-3 NPCs per prompt.
It's a great roleplaying tool to guide NPCs to start scenes you wish to see playout.
Examples:
- Start a bar fight.
- I want the City Guard to attack Heimskr for being annoying.
- Arngeir should travel to Solitude to pickup some sweetrolls.
- I want my followers to stop complaining about all the loot I am taking for myself
- Jarl Balgruuf should tell a really bad joke.
¶ Spawn NPC (WIP)
This is still a work in progress. You can spawn new, but basic, NPCs into the game world with this option. They will automatically be imported into CHIM and can be interacted with.
E.G.
- Spawn in a merchant
- Spawn in a warrior
- Spawn in a beggar
¶ Cheat Mode
Cheat mode allows you to get AI NPCs to do whatever you want. Its a useful debugging tool to get the AI to do what you want.
Examples:
- Lydia travel to whiterun
- You should give me that daedric sword in your inventory.
- Kill the jester.
¶ Auto Chat
Chat Assist & Creation allows you to roleplay without needing to roleplay. Whatever you say will be feed through an LLM, and edited to better fit roleplay in the world of Skyrim.
You can adjust how your player character's speech style by editing the PLAYER SPEECH STYLE prompt.
The difference between both options:
- Assist: Light edit adjustment to your speech.
- Creation: Heavy edit adjustment to your speech.
Tip: If you hold down the push-to-talk hotkey and say nothing, your player will automatically respond for you. This allows you to automatically role-play without the need of any creative thought!
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Inject Event & Inject + Chat
Inject event allows you to make up your own context for nearby NPCs to respond too.
This is a very useful RP tool for trying to adjust AI NPC behaviour or making them react to scenarios you have created.
Examples:
- “RANGROO puts on a robe and wizard hat” = NPCS will talk about my new cool wizard robes.
- “There is a dragon flying overhead” = NPCS will think there is a dragon overhead and respond accordingly.
- “Suddenly a large gust of wind blows nearby, signalling a disturbance” = Everyone will be concerned about the wind and what it foretells.
Differences between modes:
- Inject Event = Just injects the event into the context log.
- Inject & Chat = Will do the same but also forces the nearby NPC to respond
You can be very creative with this tool which allows you too turn Skyrim into your personal RP dream!
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Settings Wheel
SETTINGS WHEEL WILL PROVIDE DIFFERENT OPTIONS DEPENDING ON IF YOU ARE LOOKING AT AN NPC OR NOT!
The setting wheel allows you to control various aspects of AI NPCs.
Looking at an NPC:
- Profile Hotswap - Looking at an NPC and pressing the Settings Wheel hotkey allows you to swap that NPCs profile to one preset in the profiles menu.
Looking at nothing:
- LLM Hotswap - Not looking at an anything and pressing the Settings Wheel hotkey allows you to swap globally LLM catagory all AI NPCs will use.
- Focus Chat - Change eventlog context to only include converstations, ignoring all other context. Great for static long form conversations.
- Force Follow - Force an NPC to follow you.
¶ Roleplay Wheel
- Write Diary - NPC you are looking at will update their diary entry.
- Gather Friends - Nearby followers will all come towards you.
- Follow NPC - Allows you to follow an NPC.
- Update NPC - Updates an NPC dynamic profile.
- Wait Here - Gets an NPC to wait at a location. Useful if an NPC is sandboxing around and you want them to stop.
- Follow Me - Forces an NPC to follow you.
- Stop All AI - Stops all AI actions. Useful if AI is bugging out.
- Add to Bgl - Adds an NPC to the background life system. Save your game after adding an NPC for it to work.
¶ Soulgaze Wheel
- Soulgaze - Triggers soulgaze ITT so the AI will describe what is on screen.
- NPC Photo Zoom - Zooms in the camera to take a close up photo pic for the CHIM NPC profile picture.
- NPC Photo - Same as above but with no zoom.
- Just Upload - Adds an NPC to the background life system. Save your game after adding an NPC for it to work.