🎉 SkyrimNet Beta 17 Latest

PrismaUI In-Game Chat Overlay @Min

Complete remake of text-based input into a modern, unified chat overlay rendered directly inside Skyrim via PrismaUI. Consolidates all previous text input modes (dialogue, narration, emotes, thoughts) into a single interface, and adds event management — view, edit, and delete events without alt-tabbing out of the game.

Input Modes — A single hotkey opens the overlay. Type naturally, or use prefixes to control how your input is interpreted:

• Single-character prefixes: % think, ' action/emote, # silent narration, ! direct input, ^ whisper, @Name direct targeting with tab-completion, @None monologue (logs to history without triggering NPC responses)
• All input modes also have corresponding slash commands if you prefer as opposed to the aforementioned prefixes: /think, /narrate, /transform, /silent, /monologue
• Clickable mode buttons above the input field for quick switching without memorizing prefixes
• Empty submit in Transform/Thoughts mode auto-generates NPC responses, matching short-tap voice input behavior

Event Management — View, edit, and delete your conversation history without leaving the game:

• Ctrl+Up to edit your last message, Ctrl+Delete to undo the last event
• Arrow keys to browse input history (works even with mode prefixes active)
• Diary entries display as short summaries in the chat feed

Audience & Targeting — See who's listening and control who hears you:

• Audience panel shows which nearby NPCs will perceive the event
• Whisper toggle (clickable indicator, purple when active) automatically filters the audience to whisper radius

Layout & Readability — Fully customizable positioning with a clean, readable design:

• Top/bottom anchoring, width slider (50-100%), vertical offset (up to 600px), horizontal alignment
• Message history hidden by default, browsable via arrow keys or chevron button
• Text shadows and high-contrast styling for readability over busy game backgrounds

PrismaUI 1.3+ is now required for text input.

This is the foundation for a much larger vision — future releases will migrate more interaction use-cases into PrismaUI and expand it considerably to power things like target selection, group conversations, blacklisting/whitelisting, and more. This feature is fully functional, but has a few areas that will be further polished in the future - Would love feedback from folks as to how they like this feature, and what they'd like to see included in the future.

Hierarchical Action Categories @Severause

• NPC actions can now be organized into two-level category menus via the customCategory YAML field — the LLM sees manageable category folders instead of dozens of flat actions
• Drill-down uses a lightweight LLM call (~60% token savings) that skips event history, memories, and location context
• The first LLM call can pass a situational intent string (e.g., "sell a health potion to the player") that guides the second call's decisione

Tweaks

• Hotkeys are no longer disabled while message boxes are active @Min
• Memories page actor list now only shows actors that actually have memories, with memory count displayed @Min
• Player dialogue events now include speaker and listener fields matching the schema used by NPC dialogue events, enabling prompt templates to reconstruct full two-way conversations from event history @Severause

Bug Fixes

• Fixed error when talking to non-Actor references (e.g., Alternate Start Mara statue) @Min
• Fixed lip sync breaking when "Enable NPC Node Updates" was enabled — the node reset calls were incorrectly made async, which reset lip sync before it could start @Daikichi
• Fixed narrative parser using regex that caused false narrator identity swaps mid-dialogue — now uses paired-asterisk scanning @Min
• Web server startup errors (e.g., port already in use) now show an in-game HUD notification on save load instead of silently failing @Min

SkyrimNet Beta17.1

Small hotfix release.

• Setting Opacity to 100% now makes the chat box purely opaque. The background gradient now properly respects the opacity setting.
• Added missing prompt for action drilldown.