Requirements for the AI mods

For Mantella to work we need a few things set up.

1. xVaSynth - Contains voice files and lip animations
2. Mantella Program - Connects your voice with the NPCs using GPT and other ML models.
3. Mantella Spell - Lets you decide when to trigger to Mantella function in game.

All of these 3 mods must be active for the mod to work. In FUS and Auriel's Dream we will only support the use of GPT. If you want to use local models instead, then you can try this out but we will not give advice this as the performance will heavily depend on your hardware and not something we can replicate.

We will assume you have already aquired your OpenAI GPT API key, as we do not wish to guide users on this. It involves payments and the setup on the OpenAI pages may change. Google "How to get OpenAI GPT AI key" and follow instructions from there if you need to get one.

Step 1 - Insert your GPT key into the Mantella file

As seem in the screenshot, just pase in your GPT key. Make sure there is no trailing spaces at the end of the key. Double click on "Mantella Software" in MO2, that will open a new window. Here you can see a file named "GPT_SECRET_KEY.txt", right click on this and click "Open". This will then open in the text editor you have set up. In here, paste in your GPT key, save and close the file.

Step 2 - Activate the 3 mods

Activate the three mods we mentioned in the intro in the "AI Mods" category.

Step 3 - Fix xVaSynth

1. Scroll down and find the mod named Fix xVaSynth
2. Right double click on it so a new window opens
3. Right click on the "fix xvasynth.bat"
4. Choose Exexute
5. Done

Step 4 - Configure xVaSynth

After having reinstalled xVaSynth, you now need to configure it.

1. Double click on xVaSynth

2. Right click on xVaSynth.exe and choose "Execute with VFS"

3. Press "Esc" on the keyboard to get rid if the popup.

4. Now click on "Select Game" and choose "Skyrim"

6. Next, Click on the jiggsaw icon in the top right (Plugins).

7. Now tick the checkbox to enbable ".lip and .fuz file maker"
8. Click apply in the bottom right.

9. Press Close on the new popup, then press Esc on the keyboard to close the Plugins window.

That is all the required setting complete. You can now close the program.