About

What/who is this for?

Frosty's billboard is a ready-to-go speech bubble prefab for the KAT (KillFrenzyAvatarText), making it easier to converse as a mute for more direct conversation (no big chatbox above your head!)

• Paired with free speech-to-text OSC apps such as TTS-Voice-Wizard or VRCTextboxSTT

• Makes extensive use of VRChat's avatar dynamics, allowing you to drop the bubble in the world, and pick it back up with either hand seamlessly

• Focuses on being easy to customize to your liking and looking good while staying optimized (1 material for the board itself)

• Focuses on being easy as possible to setup ^{until i can code an autoinstall script}

• I made this because I don't believe in paying to talk

Requirements and Performance

• A program able to output to the KAT, such as TTS-Voice-Wizard, VRCTextboxSTT, KatOscApp
• KillFrenzyAvatarText 1.3.2
• VRLabs AV3 Manager for installation
• Poiyomi 8.1
• 55 bits of parameter space minimum, (ideally 87 for not painfully slow writing speed)
• The animator uses Write Defaults off (as does KAT), It is a bad idea to mix WD on and WD off (stuff will break)
  • Either make a reset layer and use write default off logic _{the correct option}, or turn on all write defaults with something like VRLabs AV3 Manager
  • If you're unsure what write defaults is, please read into it here!
• PC only

Performance:

• 500 polygons
• 4 material slots
• 55 bits of parameter space minimum
• 6 constraints

Required parameter space will depend on how fast you want the text to render

• At minimum you want 4, for most users 8, and 16 if you have the parameter space to spare
  • 4 (55 bits)
  • 8 (87 bits) Most recommended
  • 16 (151 bits)

Features & Showcase

• Speech to Text & emotes using VRCTextboxSTT

• Hold it in your hand and drop it in the world, grab with a fist or thumbs up!

• Resizing

• Drop it anywhere and have it follow you

• Typing Dots indicator with VRCTextboxSTT and TTS-Voice-Wizard

• Customizability made easy! More examples here

• Someone have your shaders or custom animations hidden? No worries, a fallback message will show instead.

Discord

Need help? Questions? Comments? You can find me at:

TTS Voice Wizard Discord

I5UCC's (TextboxSTT) Discord

and or DM me frosty704

please see here first before contacting me https://github.com/Frosty704/Billboard/wiki/Common-Issues

Todo

update world constraint to WorldSync

actual showcase and usage ingame tutorial

full video tutorial on how to make it work with ttsvoicewizard and textboxstt

longterm auto install script

Credits

• KillFrenzyAvatarText
• TTSVoiceWizard
• VRCTextboxSTT
• VRLabs World Constraint
• Nintendofan12s for the Windows 95 Notepad image
• xxpillowprincessxx on Kofi for the Windows 95 window image