Hey everyone!

I have a lot of bots. I've got nearly 400 live right now and around 12 that I've pulled back because I wasn't happy with something about them (usually quality). 

I also have over 200 draft bots that I haven't posted. These fall into three categories:
1) I had a bot idea and created a bot just to hold the bare minimum info so I don't forget the idea later. The bot won't work or do anything at all really.
2) The bot is mostly complete, but there's some detail or function that isn't quite working for me.
3) The bot is complete but needs images. The images are most likely difficult to make for some reason.

I wanted to know if there was any interest in me posting some of the bots from categories 2 or 3 on here with private links. You can try them out, give me some feedback, all that sort of thing. These bots will be buggy and have few if any images (maybe an accurate pfp, but most likely a placeholder pfp). 

If and when any of these bots make it to live status, I will be deleting these draft versions and recreating them (copy-paste). This resets the clock on the "bot created" date which matters for weekly rankings and such. This will mean your memories, chat history and messages on the bot will be gone. 

So, is there any interest in this? 

I played around with making videos a LOT lately. This delayed getting a few bots done, but I see it as building a new skillset for future bots. Don't expect everything to become videos, at least not right away, but I will be trying to have vid pfps when I can.

For my latest bot: Let's Roleplay!, I made a slideshow with 19 images. If you haven't checked out the bot, essentially it's a girlfriend who takes on the personality of whatever costume she puts on. I had a little fun putting her into a bunch of different costumes to see what I could make work. 

Then, to go a little crazier, I made 5 second videos out of each of those images. The end result is below. I wish I could have this as the pfp, but it's much too large (limited to 5mb). As it is, I had to kill the resolution for the slideshow version to make it fit.

I'll also include this video in the dropbox. Here's the link so you don't have to scroll through old messages.
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/6c6abrv8703hhpfj7mmng/AH73m2sVu2SBKFAEjO-nxyg?rlkey=nz6zkanquasdk1zfz83bjyuqq&dl=0

Hey all. I've been practicing a bit with making videos. I tried this around 6 months ago and had a LOT of issues with collision that were hard to work around. Now the main issue is getting them not to talk. I have an upcoming bot with a bunch of videos strung together, here are a few samples.

I thought some of you might be interested in the tools I use to make my bots and images.

Making my bots is largely done within Crushon or JuicyChat, but I often use MS Word to spellcheck and fix formatting issues. I've used both the web-based interface and my phone, but lean towards the computer since I can troubleshoot things a lot better.

Images take a lot more work. 
For initial image generation, I use:
Sexy.ai
Civitai.com

I mostly use Sexy.ai since I have a solid handle on how to make my image styles, but if I want to do an unusual style, want to do an existing character (sexy.ai doesn't allow that) or want to do something that stretches what sexy.ai can do, I'll use Civitai. Things sexy.ai are bad at: full enclosure, especially of the head, character inside of something (box, cryo sleep pod), messy/sketchy looking images if I'm going more stylistic.

I typically go with two styles, one a bit more realistic and one more anime. I try to match these with the "feel" of the bot; the more outlandish and silly bots have the anime style.

I do a lot of rework and retouching on the images. I used to just generate dozens of them until everything was perfect, but now I just get "close enough" and fix them up manually. This includes watermarks and other text. I don't waste prompt words to get rid of watermarks, I just edit them out. 

pixlr.com
fotor.com

Fotor is a little better, especially with style filters and such, but it won't allow naughty images so I've been using Pixlr for the most part/ I'll sometimes use Fotor if I need to get a certain look.

Lately, I've been saving extra images that didn't quite work for whatever reason. Sometimes it's an early character design that I changed, or imagegen gave them two braids instead of one, or long hair instead of short. These I've been storing in the dropbox for paid subscribers.

Once that's complete, I add my own watermark. I have two versions: one for posting on Crushon/JuicyChat, and the other for my dropbox files with my subscribestar link.

For these, I use:
watermark.ws

From there, it's just a matter of posting the images. Most can be linked within the bot in CrushOn, but images in the greeting and links in JuicyChat are hosted on ibb.com, linked using the format: 

Once done, I post images to my dropbox. The date for the file folder isn't necessarily the posting date, but the creation date of the bot, which you can see in the "character detail" page. This makes it easier to look things up later when you don't know when I posted it.

And that's pretty much it! 

Feel free to ask any questions if there's anything else you want to know.
V6

Sorry for my absence.

Last spring, my father got sick and had to be hospitalized. I took some time off of AI bots to deal with that. He recovered and all seemed to be going well, then about a month ago, his illness returned. This time we weren't so fortunate. My father passed away over the weekend.

I've had to neglect Crushon entirely for almost a month now. I'm going to try to get back into the swing of things this week, but I'll be spending time sorting out his finances and stuff, but I'll try to get a few bots up this week. I have around 10 bots pretty much ready to go that just need a little testing and polish.

There are some recent photosets in the dropbox for anyone who wants to take a look. They should all have upcoming bots to go with them. 

 https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/6c6abrv8703hhpfj7mmng/AH73m2sVu2SBKFAEjO-nxyg?rlkey=tm42e8l8mo33rypsx4eldw1q7&st=0qdj3axz&dl=0