Maybe next month.

Yep, the brush is broken, although I didn't realize that it crashes the game. Walking around is pretty broken too. There will be many, many bugs for a while. Especially in the next version, which should be here quite soon. But we'll find them and smoosh them over time. Once I feel like it's not too unstable, I'll add a bug reporting forum for you all to record them in, but for now it's bound to be a bit of a mess.

Also I see you have been in some troubles as of recent and I am wishing you feel rejuvenated and well soon, what you're doing is very complex and nobody expects you to get it done anytime soon. We see the progress you have made and that's enough for me at least. 

(P.S. Also, sorry to add a question to this already very long reading, but I've noticed the comb/brush isn't working and crashes my game, can't find any info but was just wondering if this is the norm as of now! Thanks so much!)

I will be putting some throgs in the game eventually, though! And I see you've just joined as a supporter, so thank you! I'll be around to chat about artificial life again soon, if I can only catch up with all the changes in Unity for a bit :)

Ugh! It's horrifying that the gloops go back ten years already and I haven't finished it yet! Where did my life go??? :)

i found it by searching "trust" because that is the main issue, steve had a lot of notes in the old builds. Probably the main reason why the old builds aren't listed as downloads. 

They were just so silly and I was wondering if there is any way to download early versions of Grandroids, or if maybe I could contact the busy man Steve Grand himself and the likelihood he would send them to me, although I understand why not since it is gated behind a subscription now. Just mainly want to mess with a gloop like I wanted to 10+ years ago XD

I wish I was a kickstarter backer but I was a child back then, and as someone who is extremely interested in artificial life and emergent intelligence I just like seeing things even if from an outsiders perspective its goofy, to me its wildly interesting.

Yeah, every time I think I'm ready to post about what's going on, something breaks and I have to focus on that, before I lose track of all the relevant information! I just haven't had the bandwidth to post something meaningful and reply to comments at the same time as completely revamping my code to run on Unity 6, in a completely different renderer, with completely different graphics and a completely different way of handling the creatures. I feel swamped! 

But my heart is very strong now, and I'm working away as hard as I can. If Unity would just stop trying to kill me for a little while, I'll at least post some screenshots soon, ahead of a completely new build. The new build will be the first one where we all get to look after the very same population of creatures, so there's a huge amount of server stuff involved and new game code. Mostly I'm just waiting until I have the rudiments of a new virtual world to keep them in, now. It'll be worth the wait, but if I post a build or screenshots too soon, I'll just get hundreds of people telling me the graphics look like crap. So, I'm taking the time I need.

Drop me an email if you'd like to catch up, and then you can tell people what's going on for me! :)

The easyest was is using multiple reference images. The only thing those images should have in common are the character. It works better if the images have different styles, poses, backgrounds and expresions. That way the AI focuses on the stuff all images have in common. That should be only your character. Maybe the style, depending on your usecase. 

Still use this old technique, however there are now specific character reference options in midjourney. 

And it always depends on your character, what makes that character unique? What is the style? What are the identifyers?