The Witcher Alive

UPDATE 0. 2 :

NPC ACTIVITIES

- Ask supported NPCs to kneel, pray, play the flute, fish, or draw and put away a torch.

- Activities use native animations and props, including their entrance and exit sequences.

- Ask an NPC to stop an activity or stand back up.

- Fishing requires a compatible male NPC already near and facing suitable water.

- Quest characters and children remain excluded from activity and follow commands.

MORE NATURAL LIP SYNC

- Replaced volume-only jaw movement with four audio-driven mouth-shape controls.

- Mouth timing follows audio playback, including pauses in streamed speech.

- Added smoother transitions and a return to a neutral expression when speech stops.

- Mouth shapes are acoustic estimates, not exact phoneme recognition.

KEYBOARD AND CONTROLLER SUPPORT

- Configurable Talk, Cancel and Settings bindings.

- Click a binding and press the desired key, controller button or button combination.

- Supports keyboard modifiers, XInput and standard HID / DirectInput controller buttons.

THE WITCHER ALIVE

Give the people of the Continent a voice of their own.

Walk up to a villager, question a guard, or exchange a few words with a familiar face. Hold your push-to-talk key, speak naturally, and release it to hear a voiced response shaped by the character and their surroundings.

The Witcher Alive connects eligible nearby characters to Gemini Live through a Windows companion. NPCs receive their identity, a role-based personality, local context and recent conversation history. Guards can take offence, warn you, or accept a direct challenge to fight.

FEATURES

• []Speak directly to NPCs. Hold V to record your voice; release to send. The companion prepares the connection while you speak and streams the reply as audio arrives.[/]

  []Personalities grounded in the world. Archetypes and supplied character information guide vocabulary, attitude, faction awareness and local knowledge. Reply language is selectable.[/]

  []Environmental context. NPCs receive the current area, time of day, weather and indoor/outdoor state when the game provides them.[/]

  []Optional visual context. Enable a small view from the player's camera for extra context. Images are limited to 512 x 288 pixels, at most one per eligible turn and no more often than every ten seconds. This option is disabled by default to limit token usage.[/]

  []Provocation and guard duels. Repeated serious insults can escalate after a warning. A direct challenge to the selected guard can request combat immediately, after their reply. Civilians and children are not converted into combatants.[/]

  []Positional voices. Stereo placement and distance attenuation follow the NPC relative to the camera.[/]

  []Audio-driven mouth animation. A restrained mouth movement follows the spoken audio on supported character rigs.[/]

  []Less overlapping chatter. The selected NPC's native ambient voice is muted during the interaction and restored when it ends. This does not mute the entire world.[/]

  []Your settings, saved immediately. F8 opens the companion settings over the game. Adjust volume, reply language, microphone, talk key, visual context etc..[/]

  []Bring your own Gemini key. Enter it in the F8 menu. It saves automatically, is masked by default and can be revealed or cleared. It is hidden again when the menu closes and stored using Windows account encryption. Create your api key for free here : https://aistudio.google.com/app/api-keys[/]

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  READ BEFORE DOWNLOADING

  This first public release supports the tested Windows x64 DX12 executable, build 5. 0. 0. 1044392, only. The native bridge checks the exact executable fingerprint and stays disabled on a mismatch. The same displayed version number on another executable does not guarantee compatibility. DX11, Classic 1. 32 and other executable builds are not supported by this package.

  You also need a microphone, . NET Framework 4. 8, internet access and your own Gemini API key : https://aistudio.google.com/app/api-keys

  Use borderless or windowed display mode for the companion overlay and F8 settings

  INSTALLATION

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  Huge Thanks to Not Much Better for the install tutorial !

  [*]Close The Witcher 3 and quit any older Witcher Alive companion from its system-tr