3.5.0

Added

• The seven bundled worlds are about twice as big, and every location and entity has art
• Entity Avatars
  • A world holds several Avatars in its Media tab, and each world entity picks one in its Avatar dropdown
  • Mark one library Avatar as your default from its tile menu, and User's Default shows it
  • Library entities pick an Avatar from your Avatar library, and a library persona shows it while you play
  • Enter World shows the avatar step when the persona you pick has an Avatar
  • In play, one entity view shows each entity's Avatar, 3D model or image, and replaces the separate Avatar tab
  • Exported character cards and published entities carry the entity's Avatar, and importing one adds it to your Avatar library
  • The World Editor's Import Entity adds a card's Avatar to your library only when you confirm the import
  • A library entity's Avatar dropdown shows Missing Avatar when its Avatar isn't on this device, as the link review does
  • Each Avatar in the World Overview has a Preview button that shows it in 3D, with Export
• Local Model
  • Unified KV Cache is on by default, so parallel requests share one context
  • K Cache Type, V Cache Type and KV Cache in RAM give you more control over the context's memory
  • Local vision models see the images in your story when their projector sits beside the model
  • Context Overflow chooses what happens when a story is longer than Context Size
  • World Tools work on the desktop engine, and the model reads each Tool's result before it answers
• Media Tab
  • The World Editor's new Media tab shows every image, sound, 3D Model and Avatar in the world, with sizes
  • The Media tab header shows Publish Size and lets you group, sort and filter the gallery
  • The Media tab's panel replaces or removes a sound, 3D Model, background, thumbnail or cover image
  • Optimize Images moves into the World Editor's Media tab header in both modes, and now shrinks dictionary cover images
  • An entity's or location's image opens one Media tab panel with its gallery, and the framed image's actions sit below
  • The Media tab's No Images filter lists entities, locations, the thumbnail and the Map Background with no image
  • Trait requirements and image Visibility rules can check the time of day, such as evening or night
  • In the World Editor, a location's background is now a gallery, and each image can take a Visibility rule
  • The Locations canvas can show a Map Background image, and the in-game Map draws it behind the locations
• Request Status Strip
  • The request status strip shows a small animated icon for each request, such as a compass for Plan
  • The request status strip shows a quill for Narration, a forking path for Choices, and masks for Cast and Motivation
  • The request status strip shows how long the turn has run, after 3 seconds
• Placeholders
  • An entity's Pronouns field now takes placeholder chips
  • A connection's Travel Hints now take placeholder chips in the World Editor
  • An entity's Relationship labels now take placeholder chips
• Scripts
  • Scripts can now read the hour and minute of the story clock, with clock.hour and clock.minute
  • Scripts can now read the player's action and the turn number, with turn.action and turn.number
  • Scripts can now hide or show a stat during play, with hidden
  • Scripts can now read a location's parent, children and exits, with location.parent, .children and .exits
  • Scripts can now switch dictionary entries on or off during play, with enabled and constant
  • Scripts can now switch a whole dictionary on or off during play, with enabled
  • Scripts can now read a stat's active band text, with descriptor and previous.descriptor
  • After the AI scripts can now read the turn's page and read or change its choices, with turn.narration and turn.choices
  • In a world whose After the AI scripts use turn, choices show once those scripts finish
  • Re-generate Choices now runs a world's After the AI scripts again, so a choice a script removed stays removed
  • The script editor now underlines a write to clock, location or notes, which a run ignores
• Feedback Questions
  • Feedback has a Questions tab, where you ask the community, reply and vote on questions you share
  • While you type a question's title, the Feedback dialog lists Similar Questions
  • The asker or staff can mark one reply as a question's answer, and the thread pins it under the question
  • Each Formaquestion answer has an Ask the Community button, which opens a new question titled with what you asked
• Listing Review
  • Your listings show a Pending Review or Resubmitted badge while a mod reviews them
  • Mods review new listings in the Admin Panel's new Moderation tab, which holds Reports and Review
  • Admins trust an author in the Users tab and switch Listing Review on in the Server tab
  • A live listing with an update waiting for review shows Update Pending, and you can compare or discard the update
• Usernames
  • New usernames are 3–20 letters, numbers, spaces, _ or - on the game's Register dialog and website's Create Account page
  • An account whose username breaks the rule chooses a new name in a rename dialog after login
  • The website asks an account with a rule-breaking username to choose a new name
• Feedback Links
  • Every feedback thread shows its number, and #23 or a pasted thread address in a post shows as a chip
  • A listing address in a feedback post now shows as a chip with its image, title and kind
  • Typing @username in a feedback post shows the player as a chip that opens their profile
  • Typing @ or # in a feedback post suggests players or threads to link
• Website Feedback
  • The Suggestions and Questions boards are now readable on formamorph.ai/feedback
  • Signed-in visitors can vote, reply and edit their own posts on formamorph.ai/feedback
  • File suggestions and questions from the website
• The Requires picker in a large world opens on Traits, Any Trait in a Group and Stats
• The World Editor's Downscale now turns every PNG, BMP and lossless WebP image into a smaller lossy WebP

Removed

• Entity Avatars
  • The 3D Player Avatar checkbox and the Custom Player Avatar uploader leave the World Overview
  • The Enter World avatar step no longer has a Delete button

Fixed

• World Tools
  • A world Tool on the narration or choices prompt no longer puts the model's planning into the story or choices
  • A world Tool offered to the stat pass now gets called
• The code editor's Variable menu lists groups first, then fields, then verbs
• Turning off Flash Attention in the Local Model panel now turns it off when the model loads
• The bundled model's out-of-VRAM error names your Context Size and Parallel Requests settings
• Editing a stat's or trait's script on the Scripts tab no longer slows down per keystroke and crashes the editor
• The Hidden list in Community Creations now scrolls, so you can unhide one world from a long list
• Indented lists and paragraphs in narration and model thoughts now show as text, not as code blocks
• Unchecking Native Reasoning under Settings → Output now turns reasoning off on every prompt
• Test Code on a linked stat now routes writes through owner.stats to the stat itself, as play does
• Choices now stream word by word at the end of a turn in long stories, instead of appearing at once
• The turn's action row now slides open after the narration finishes, and the choices stream in after it
• The request status strip floats over the bottom of the narration, so the Pager and the action box stay still
• One drag of a World Editor slider or color picker now undoes in one step
• The Test Bench's AI Context tab now reads each entity's text with that entity's own traits and placeholders
• The Test Bench now accepts an entity whose images cover every pick of a required group
• Settings copy reads one way on every tab, and four labels drop their asides
• The desktop app now connects to ComfyUI without the --enable-cors-header flag
• In the Feedback dialog and Admin Panel, a list that fails to load says so and offers Try Again