SkyrimNet Beta 24

Identity Links @Severause

Link two identities (NPC or virtual) so SkyrimNet treats them as one being — Erik the farmer and Erik the Slayer share one history. Also covers a telepathic voice and its body, twins with one mind, a lich and its vessel. Settings → NPCs → Identity Links.

• Memory/conversation sharing direction is set per link.
• A bodiless identity stays silent while its physical counterpart is present.
• Possession modes for voice-and-body links: Host-led (host in control; entity speaks through the host's thoughts), Contested (control shifts; dialogue labels the speaker, including mid-conversation switches), Entity-led (entity controls the body).
• Host awareness is a separate setting, fully informed to completely unaware; custom possession text supported.
• Successions — declare that one record continues another, so the same person survives swapped records.

Manual Book Capture @PhospheneOverdrive @MinLL

Press the Capture Crosshair hotkey while the Book Menu is open and your character reads the book and reacts on demand. New Reading Mode setting (auto / manual): auto keeps the existing close-the-book reaction, manual reacts only on the hotkey. Outside the Book Menu the hotkey keeps its OmniSight scene-capture behavior.

• A manual capture always responds — it bypasses the Player Reactions flag, probability roll, and cooldowns. Response type (thought vs. dialogue) is still honored.
• Textless books (maps, diagrams) fall back to the vision model for a page description.
• A book captured mid-combat renders the book reaction instead of a combat-panic thought that never saw the text.

Dashboard Themes & Debug Tools @zevick

Theme dropdown at the top of every page; save multiple custom themes, with every element customizable down to badges, log labels, and syntax highlighting. Built-in themes adjusted for contrast and colorblind friendliness.

• Debug page ported from the old web UI — button on the Settings page.
• The world knowledge entry modal creates and edits NPC groups inline.
• Variant search on the Models page.
• Fixes: dynamic bio diffs compare against the correct bio, Logs/Memories pagination shows the right page count, OmniSight gallery paginates server-side, empty tutorial steps.

Trigger Condition Expansion @PhospheneOverdrive

Event triggers can now define multiple condition groups, OR-ed together; conditions within each group use ALL/ANY logic, e.g. (A AND B) OR (C OR D). Existing valid trigger files remain compatible; omitted operators default to AND.

MiniMax Music 3.0 @Dowser

Bard songs can use Music-3.0 and Music-3.0-free (free: 3 req/min; paid: 120 RPM, ~$0.15 per ≤5 min of audio).

Event History / Plugin API Fixes @MinLL

• Events without an originating actor were fetched but never rendered — they consumed fetch-window slots, then the prompt template dropped them. A 15-event fetch could render 6 during a knockdown-heavy fight while using community plugins for integrations like Acheron.
• Event schemas registered from Papyrus as ephemeral were written to the database anyway, accumulating forever. Declared ephemerality is honored.

Master Switch Enforcement @MinLL

• general.globalAIEnabled off stops all outbound paid LLM/vision/music calls — scene descriptions, bard songs, triggered thoughts/dialogue/diary, and dashboard test buttons included. Previously several of these bypassed the flag. Papyrus SendCustomPromptToLLM and the exported-DLL equivalent return empty while off; the quick-toggle panel shows a disabled status line.
• Text or voice aimed at an NPC while the master switch or GameMaster is off shows an on-screen message naming which switch is off and where to re-enable it (shown even with general.showInGameNotifications off). Thoughts, vanilla dialogue selection, and narration are unaffected.

Movement & Mounted Awareness @PhospheneOverdrive

Walking/sprinting detection reads physical displacement instead of the engine's gait-toggle bit — stationary NPCs stop reporting "walking", moving players stop reporting "standing". Mounted riders are detected via mount displacement; mounted-state and tempered-equipment prompt coverage restored; is_mounted(uuid) display-name fallback fixed.

Faster Boot on Slow Connections @bellbound

Startup model verification (Whisper, MiniLM embeddings, Silero VAD) runs on background threads instead of the load thread — up to ~40s saved when a model record is missing/stale and the network is slow or down. Settled installs are unaffected. Mic hotkeys pressed before the VAD model finishes loading say "voice model still loading, try again in a moment" instead of failing silently.

For Mod Authors @MinLL

• Virtual NPC UUIDs from Papyrus — SkyrimNetApi.GetVirtualNPCUUID("Name") (registration or display name, case-insensitive; the NPC must be enabled) and GetVirtualNPCList() (JSON array of all registered virtual NPCs). The UUID derives from the registration name — stable across sessions, safe to cache.
• Actor mood is readable and observable — decorator get_actor_mood(actorUUID) returns the current mood name (NEUTRAL if never evaluated; feed it to mood_description for catalog text). Mod event SkyrimNet_MoodChanged fires on actual change with actorFormId, actorName, mood, previousMood; a failed evaluation no longer broadcasts a spurious NEUTRAL.
• Narration audio events — SkyrimNet_AudioStarted/AudioEnded fire for narration lines (they never did; the Narrator entity has no FormID). Payload adds isNarration, originatingSpeakerFormId/Name (the NPC whose line the narration belongs to), and sourceEventId to pair start/end. Caveats: the Papyrus sender is None for narration; AudioEnded is best-effort.
• Filtered memory queries — C++ plugin API v10 — PublicQueryMemoriesForActor(formId, queryJSON) filters and orders in SQL before truncation: tag include/exclude, memory type, emotion, location, importance and game-time bounds, active/inactive, seven orderings including semantic Relevance. Typed MemoryQuery struct in the updated PublicAPI.h; returns [] on installs older than v10. PublicGetMemoriesForActor is untouched. Memory game_time is stamped on every creation path.
• Case-insensitive JSON property lookup in templates — exact key first, case-insensitive fallback on miss. Fixes templates silently rendering nothing when Skyrim capitalizes keys (Actors vs actors) differently per install. Renders that work today are unchanged.

Dashboard Fixes @MinLL

• Action Library shows parse failures — a custom action YAML with a syntax error is listed in a red panel with its parse error instead of vanishing with only a log line.
• Editing an action wiped fields — Custom Event Message, Temporary event, and per-rule required flags survive an edit/re-save.
• 64-bit UUIDs rounded in eligibility conditions — big integers round-trip exactly in the Expected result field, including values corrupted by earlier saves.
• Models "Test" button gave up at 35s — the wait follows the variant's configured timeouts; timeout messages name the slot.
• Pasted API keys with a trailing newline broke requests — paste is sanitized, stored values cleaned on save, and the HTTP layer strips CR/LF from all outgoing headers.

TTS & Audio

• Universal Max Volume is per-character (non-native audio path) — override the cap per character or NPC group. VR: your own outgoing voice is capped too; it used to bypass the cap at distance zero. @MinLL
• Bracketed names never found their custom voices — a sample for Sosia [Whiterun Guard] was saved sanitized but looked up raw, falling back to a race/gender default that persisted. Naming unified; re-uploading clears the stale fallback. @MinLL
• Player lines vanished with Voice Player Input off — voicing off + player subtitles on shows your line as a subtitle; subtitles no longer depend on TTS. @MinLL
• Inworld multi-NPC crash — per-instance voice caches are locked, fixing a data race under max_parallel_requests > 1. @MinLL

Bug Fixes

• One LLM timeout could permanently kill the trigger system — the trigger event worker survives uncaught streaming exceptions, logs, and moves on. @MinLL
• One malformed character mojibaked entire messages — a single replacement character (split Cyrillic token) made the encoder re-encode the whole message as Windows-1252 and persist it. Encoder is resilient to malformed LLM output. @MinLL
• Followers stopped counting past ~15m — is_follower resolves by UUID instead of a proximity scan, so distance no longer flips party-quest sharing and scene inclusion while travelling. @MinLL
• Private companion speech leaked — private virtual-NPC lines no longer surface in nearby NPCs' thought/action prompts or get laundered into their memory. @MinLL
• Private virtual NPCs addressed people who can't hear them — a private-mode virtual speaker always addresses the player. @Severause
• Raw event text in prompts — equip/activate/combat events render as prose again under Recent Events; a string/int id mismatch was dumping raw JSON. @MinLL
• All-digit trigger condition values mis-parsed — values like 00000014 stay strings instead of being read as octal, so those triggers fire. @MinLL
• Blank bio section headings — indented empty markdown headers (Background, Personality, …) are stripped from prompts. @MinLL
• 400s from strict LLM providers — unset frequency_penalty/presence_penalty are omitted instead of sent as 0; per-param clear buttons added to the model sliders. @MinLL
• Whisper "large" download 404'd — replaced with large-v1; configs storing large heal on load. @MinLL
• Access-violation spam when memory init failed — failed memory initialization (e.g. model download blocked by antivirus) no longer crashes every query into SEH errors; guarded and logged. @MinLL
• New Game never initialized on some SKSEVR setups — init also fires once the player is controllable; the "Database is not initialized" check waits for init to settle. Loading a save was never affected. @MinLL
• Token counts from local servers — usage is read from the final SSE chunk on OpenAI-compatible servers like llama.cpp. @Dowser
• HTTP retries — transport failures are retried, cancellations are not; Papyrus/C++ LLM calls no longer abort before the retry budget is exhausted. @Dowser
• In-game dashboard rendering — CEF packaging rules applied to the dashboard bundle, improving display in the PrismaUI view. @Dowser
• OmniSight — deduplicated idle timers; scene-log spam moved to TRACE. @Dowser

...and other assorted minor fixes.