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🧭 Added a new Info Center – now you can access news, changelogs, and support tickets all in one place. 🎟️ Improved the support ticket system UI – cleaner layout, easier to use, less confusion overall. 🧩 Fixed an issue...
🎮 Fixed Steam integration in production builds Fixed a critical packaging issue that prevented steamworks.js from loading in Steam builds, which blocked Steam sign-in and Pal Engine API session linking for affected user...
🔘 Fixed the missing Create Character button The Create Character button is visible again in the Characters page. 📦 Fixed a packaging issue Fixed a production packaging problem that could make the app build fail or look...
📸 Character Photo Booth now supports richer scene building Character Photo Booth was refactored to support more characters, text, scene objects, and scene lights in one project, making it much easier to build more compl...
🧠 More embedded AI model choices Pal Engine now supports more built-in lightweight function-routing models, giving you a choice between FunctionGemma, Llama 3.2 1B, and Qwen2.5 1.5B for internal action and helper tasks....
🧭 VRM 1.0 preview rotation fix Fixed a bug where some VRM 1.0 characters were facing the background instead of the camera in the character preview modal during import. 💬 /animations command fix The /animations command...
🧠 Expanded LM Studio model shortlist Pal Engine now includes more curated local LM Studio models, including the bigger Gemma 2 9B and Gemma 3 12B options for stronger replies, plus NVIDIA Nemotron as an experimental com...
📸 Character Photo Booth has been implemented Pal Engine now includes a dedicated Character Photo Booth, making it easy to frame your character, capture shots, and create cleaner screenshots directly inside the app. 🎁 P...
⬆️ Top snapping now works again Characters can now snap correctly to the top of the screen instead of ignoring that edge while other snap directions continue to behave normally. 🧹 Faulty VRM hair rotation behavior has b...
🆔 Steam user ID handling has been reduced Pal Engine now prefers the internal Pal Engine user account for core session and chat sync flows, improving compatibility when Steam is not part of the active setup. 📐 Perspect...
🎨 Modern interface, dark by default Pal Engine now ships with a sleek, fully redesigned Dark Mode interface as the default experience — smoother, cleaner, and easier on the eyes whether you're chatting or browsing your...
🗣️ Tons of new Piper TTS voices We added a much larger Piper voice library, giving you many more choices for different character styles, accents, and voice personalities. 🎙️ Better Voice & Speech workflow Voice setti...
🔗 Connect your VRoid Hub account from the Store Pal Engine now lets you link your VRoid Hub account directly from the Store so you can browse VRoid Hub content without leaving the app setup flow. 🧭 Browse Staff Picks,...
🗑️ Delete your own submitted community characters Users can now delete their own submitted Community Characters directly from the Shared By You section. ⏪ 24-hour restore window for deleted submissions Deleted submissio...
🛍️ Store Characters now include official Alania models Alania Default and Alania Christmas were moved into Store Characters, so users can claim and import them directly from the Store flow. 🌐 Community Characters model...
💬 Better chat history management Chat history handling is cleaner, with improved synchronization between Gemini cloud chats and LM Studio local chats.
🎤 Voice is now manual only Wake-word listening was removed. 🎛️ Compact voice quick controls Voice controls are now cleaner and shared between the popover and Conversations. 🧠 Better muted behavior Conversation mode can...
🎤 Voice is now manual only You now start voice chat when you want. Wake-word listening was removed, so the app will not listen in the background anymore. ⚙️ Voice settings are simpler We removed wake-word options and ke...
🪟 Animation UI improvements Animation tabs were moved from the Animation Control Window into the Client Window under a dedicated Animations tab, making character control more accessible and streamlined. 🧲 Smart charact...
Improve Client Window design Implement Poses tab in Animation Control Window, to allow user set a animation of type Pose and play it (character will stay in that pose until canceled or interupted). Add more keybindings t...
🎙️ Implementation of Text-to-Speech and Speech-to-Text internal tools Built-in voice features are now in place, and we’ve added a dependency manager that will download and install the external engines/models you choose —...
Improve notification system
Implement Notification system Fix bone capsules not properly detecting region clicks with interaction button. ✨ Pal Engine – Update 0.5.8 Small Update 2 (2025-10-05) ✨ Interaction animations should be interupted by o...
Refactor Character upload form to fix issues when user uploads a large vrm model.
Fixed Show Debug Information to show bone capsules Added more adjusted bone capsules in order to improve on character hover and character area interaction clicks.