🧿 Pal Engine — Your Interactive 3D Desktop Companion

Pal Engine brings animated 3D characters to your desktop — customizable, expressive, and optionally AI-powered. Use built-in characters or import your own VRM model, define their personality, control their behavior, and make them uniquely yours — now with mini-games and deeper AI integration via LM Studio.

🤝 Community-Driven Development

Built with the community, for the community. Share feedback, suggest features, contribute VRM models, animations, mini-games, and ideas — and help shape the future of Pal Engine.

🔑 Key Features

🎭 Load & personalize VRM characters
Import your own avatar or use one of the built-in Alenia models. Customize name, appearance, interests, and personality.

🖱️ Drag, resize & rotate freely
Move your character between screens, scale and rotate, switch between Perspective & Orthographic cameras.

💬 AI Conversations (powered by LM Studio and Google Cloud)
Each character responds with its own memory, tone, and style — now with LM Studio integration for richer, more context-aware conversations.

🎞️ Advanced Animation System & Text-to-Speech
Characters reply with voice, gestures, and behavior driven by interaction.

🔊 Idle & Custom Animations
Set your default idle, or let characters cycle through random idles. Import custom FBX & VRMA animations.

💃 Dance Control
Choose which dances are included in random dance playback.

🧠 Interactions & Reactions
Assign unique actions/gestures for clicks on head, hands, legs, and more.

🛠️ What’s Coming Next

😀 Facial Expressions
Smile, frown, react with emotion — characters will convey mood visually.

📐 Snap-to-Screen Docking
Sit at bottom, lean on sides — characters will “stick” to screen edges elegantly.

⏰ Utilities
Notes, timers & alarms for daily productivity integration.

🎬 Support for more custom user-defined animations
Extend creative possibilities with advanced animation hooks.

🎮 Mini-Games
Play fun, interactive mini-games with your character — from quick puzzles to idle challenges that give personality context and engagement between chats and animation reactions.

Pal Engine, your desktop with personality