😸Catbot Integration, AI Office, Cat Mode (AI Avatar v17: VS Code and Chrome Extension)
Intro AI Avatar is a free app where your VRoid (VRM) avatar cheers you with all its might .🤗 It lives in your VS Code sidebar (reacts to Claude Code / GitHub Copilot) or browser side panel (reacts to ChatGPT / Claude). Animations and speech bubbles all run without AI too. This time I have three main topics. 🤝Catbot Integration 🏢AI Office 😺Cat Mode Let's see how they are! Catbot Integration I was asked to collaborate with my DEV Community friend @annavi11arrea1 Catbot . Catbot is A galactic robot cat you can talk to from any device — and a harness that lets you switch between (or combine) all of your AI models. https://github.com/AnnaVi11arrea1/catbot I was happy about this offer because I loved Anna's creativity and cool designs. I added the features below to AI Avatar to integrate Catbot. Launch Cat button: With this button, AI Avatar can run Catbot. Catbot with button: This makes Catbot stay beside AI Avatar. Cat Boss button: This changes the AI Office boss from a VRM avatar to Catbot. Cat Mode Many people feel that animals are healing and soothing. It is close to the AI Avatar concept of cheering people up. So I decided to add Cat Mode . I added the features below to make it look like a cat. Cat-like text, "Meow/Purrr" in English and "にゃ～" in Japanese Cat emojis Cat pose animations A new avatar with cat ears and cat whiskers. To tell the truth, the hardest part of making this mode was adding whiskers to the avatar using Blender . I can do basic things in Blender, but it is too difficult for me, even with the help of AI, just to add whiskers. It would be more fun if I added other animal modes too. AI Office AI Avatar displayed only one avatar. I thought it could do more things if it displayed several avatars at once. So I added AI Office mode. Two avatars are displayed and talk and move around when idle, and they also make a communication animation when using AI or clicking. I made one avatar a boss and one a worker. The hard part of making this mode was the timin