v0.6.0: Unreal Marketplace launch!

In this release, Charisma is now available on the Unreal Marketplace! 🎉

To download, head to: https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/charisma-conversational-ai-for-npcs

Other improvements:

• Added Pause and Play Blueprint nodes to pause/play a Charisma playthrough, useful for pause screens in-game.
• Improved logging implementation: all logs are now made under the custom Charisma category.
• Added language code to speech recognition.
• Added experimental Reset Playthrough Blueprint node.
• All references to EventIds are now strings instead of int64s to align with the type sent from Charisma.

v0.5.0: Speech recognition

This release adds support for speech recognition directly into Charisma! 🎉

To enable this for your story, please get in touch with us.

Also, this release:

• Adds a Fork Playthrough node to upgrade players to the latest published version of the story
• Adds a ping/pong mechanism to detect disconnections earlier

v0.4.0: Refactor voice clip decoding

The custom functions decoding the audio data (including the Blueprint function CreateSoundFromBytes) have been removed in favour of the excellent open-source plugin RuntimeAudioImporter.

This means the Charisma Actor component now supports playing any encoding of voice audio (and no longer crashes on UE5)! 🎉

v0.3.0: UE5 support

This release adds support for Unreal Engine 5! 🎉

Please create an issue if you run into any trouble using this plugin in Unreal Engine 5.

Aside from that, the way to select a speech encoding has been improved, making it possible to use encodings other than OGG if you bring your own support for converting bytes into a SoundWave.

v0.2.0: Setup improvements

This release contains a bunch of changes designed to make it easier to setup Charisma! This includes:

• Async blueprints for all API methods
• Much simpler setup flow
• Added templates as part of plugin content
• A new Charisma actor component

Many thanks to @SergioCruzSL for his work on this! 💯

v0.1.0: Initial release

Initial release of Charisma SDK for UE4. 🎉

Please note, this plugin is currently v0.1.0 and may undergo several breaking changes before a stable v1.0.0 version.