Bring The Matrix to Life: How to Add AI-Powered Characters in

At Convai, we believe that simulations that closely approximate reality are stronger grounds for AI to evolve further and understand the world similar to how a human does. With such simulations, AI can achieve spatial understanding, engage in social interactions with various characters (both real humans and other AIs), have goals, objectives, and memories, and achieve agency that would lead to emergent properties along with social skills. One such great simulation came from the Unreal Engine team a few years ago with The Matrix Awakens Demo, and in this tutorial, we are enabling that project with Convai.

We’ll guide you through integrating AI into hundreds of characters, turning them from static entities into lifelike characters capable of spatial awareness, dynamic interactions, goals, and memories. This is a step toward persistent virtual worlds where AI characters evolve with their own objectives, similar to the evolving characters seen in the Free Guy movie.

Join us as we break down blueprints, tackle complexity, and unlock the future of AI-driven characters for virtual worlds.

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Sign up at https://convai.com to try it out. Write to us at [email protected] for any queries, bug reports, collab, or business-related engagement.

Convai plugin for Unreal Engine: https://www.unrealengine.com/marketpl...

City Sample Scene: https://www.unrealengine.com/marketpl...

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Project File: To be added soon! Be on the lookout.

Time-Stamps:

00:00 Intro
01:14 Project Demo
02:06 Video Overview
02:22 Download the City Sample Scene
02:40 Install and Enable Convai Plugin
02:59 Add Metahuman Character
03:28 Enable Missing Plugins
03:35 Test the Scene
03:53 Configure Player Blueprint
04:55 Add the Chatbot Component
05:20 Configure Crowd Character Blueprint
07:28 Create the Crowd Characters' Personality
07:58 Add Knowledge Bank for Common Knowledge
08:31 Add your API Key
08:43 Add AI characters to Unreal Engine
09:50 Update Main Character Blueprint Logic
12:07 Enable Push to Talk
12:15 Test it Out
12:43 Add and Configure Body Animations
18:41 Test out Animations
19:17 Configure Lipsync and Facial Animations
21:24 Test Out Facial Animations
21:45 Outro

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