Kate download - K.A.T.E. IM Avatar Character System

Kate 16.04.1

K.A.T.E. IM Avatar Character System. 3D Instant Message Talking Chat!

KATE brings together the advanced Instant-Messaging system from Sonork and the lifelike avatars from Haptek. KATE gives you a living, winking, breathing custom avatar which speaks the messages coming and going. You design your own 3D face to chat!

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Software Specs

Publisher:............ Haptek Inc.

License:............... Freeware

File size:.............. 39526.4 MB

Downloads:.........

Release date:...... 10 Mar 2003

Last update:........ 17 Jun 2016

Language:............ English

Publisher review for Kate 16.04.1:

Review by: Haptek Inc.
K.A.T.E. IM Avatar Character System
Leveraging the Global IPC, this application (code name KATE) brings together the advanced Instant Messaging system from Sonork and the lifelike avatars from Haptek. KATE links this virtual reality technology with the Sonork client to enable living, winking, breathing custom avatars that speak the messages coming and going through the Sonork messenger.

Using a SAPI text-to-speech engine, the character reads the text typed through the Sonork messenger, along with incoming messages spoken by the sender's character

Supports customizing the Avatar?s appearance, shape, size, voice and background through an extensive set of preloaded options

Includes automatic animations and moods for all favorite emoticons, such as :) , ;), :-O, J, etc.

Custom 3D avatars can be created choosing from several shapes, skins and character settings included
Requirements:
Pentium Class CPU,16MB RAM, 21MB disk space ,Sound Card ,DirectX 6.0

Operating system:
Win98,WinME,WinXP,Windows2000

Limitations:
no limitations

Release notes:
Major Update

Whats new in version 16.04.1:
1) added a check to see if the mrf file has the proper target # of vertices. to support future version of putty that might not have the standard head. 2) added some helpfull text on the emote pannel with instructions on how to use them 3) added a button on the Avatar Setup panel that opens a helpfile about the tts system and how to get more voices. 4) added a page in the preferences that links to people putty information about making your own characters 5) added links to tts help, and putty info pages in help file 6) fixed bug where when user presses F1, no help came up. Now the help file comes up. 7) updated Haptek vf4 installer to version 4.11.39, includes MANY bug fixes over the previous included vf4 installer.