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What/who is this for?

Frosty's billboard is a ready-to-go speech bubble prefab for the KAT (KillFrenzyAvatarText), making it easier to converse as a mute for more direct conversation (no big chatbox above your head!)

Paired with free speech-to-text OSC apps such as TTS-Voice-Wizard or VRCTextboxSTT
Makes extensive use of VRChat's avatar dynamics, allowing you to drop the bubble in the world, and pick it back up with either hand seamlessly
Focuses on being easy to customize to your liking and looking good while staying optimized (1 material for the board itself)
Focuses on being easy as possible to setup ^{until i can code an autoinstall script}
I made this because I don't believe in paying to talk

Requirements and Performance

A program able to output to the KAT, such as TTS-Voice-Wizard, VRCTextboxSTT, KatOscApp
KillFrenzyAvatarText 1.3.2
VRLabs AV3 Manager for installation
Poiyomi 8.1
55 bits of parameter space minimum, (ideally 87 for not painfully slow writing speed)
The animator uses Write Defaults off (as does KAT), It is a bad idea to mix WD on and WD off (stuff will break)
- Either make a reset layer and use write default off logic _{the correct option}, or turn on all write defaults with something like VRLabs AV3 Manager
- If you're unsure what write defaults is, please read into it here!
PC only

Performance:

500 polygons
4 material slots
55 bits of parameter space minimum
6 constraints

Required parameter space will depend on how fast you want the text to render

At minimum you want 4, for most users 8, and 16 if you have the parameter space to spare
- 4 (55 bits)
- 8 (87 bits) Most recommended
- 16 (151 bits)

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