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Description
*The SAO Utils Project is NOT a RM project.SAO Utils is free, clean, and no ADs ...forever!
Link 1: Download SAO Utils
Link 2: NERvSDK Repository
The SAO Utils is a Sword Art Online Look'n'Feel application launcher with variety of powerful utilities.
Its pluggable architecture allows you, the developer, to add any kind of plug-ins to the core program.
That's the reason why it was named as "SAO Utils"
Here're some highlight features of Beta 1:
1.The 3D Launcher and Startup Animation.
2.Quick Image Preview.
3.Drag&Drop Menu Editing.
4.GGO Theme.
5.And More, please watch the DEMO Video and download it
Any advice would be most welcome, and you can report bugs HERE .
Your ideas could help us to make SAO Utils better XD
Have Fun!
*Many thanks to darkblackswords' SAO font project .
Change Log
2015.12.11 – Beta 1 Update 1
2015.09.04 – New Plug-ins
2015.08.23 – Beta 1
Notes
2015-12-11 Beta 1 Update 1 released.
2015-11-14 Progress of web browsing.
2015-10-01 NERvSDK 0.2.0 updated.
2015-09-01 NERvSDK released.
2015-08-23 Beta 1 released.
2014-10-01 Alpha2 Hotfix4 released.
2014-07-09 Alpha2 Hotfix3 released.
2014-02-04 Alpha2 Hotfix2 released.
2013-11-09 Alpha2 Hotfix1 released.
2013-10-05 Alpha2 released.
2013-08-25 Alpha1 Hotfix7 released.
2013-08-09 Breathing effect & control test.
2013-07-07 3D Testing.
2013-05-02 Alpha1 Hotfix6 released.
2013-04-17 Bug Tracker is online.
2013-04-13 Alpha1 Hotfix5 released.
2013-03-29 Alpha1 Hotfix4 released.
2013-03-19 Alpha1 Hotfix3 released.
2013-03-16 Upload video to Niconico.
2013-03-13 Alpha1 Hotfix2 released.
2013-03-11 Alpha1 Hotfix1 released.
2013-03-09 Alpha1 released.
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Comments: 415
hey, the start up animation does not work for me. The screen just goes black for a second and then the utility itself loads up. Would you know the reason for this? I am using an intel i5, 8 gigs of ram, with Intel HD 4000 graphics if that helps at all. Also, when can we expect the 3D menu to be ready ? Great work, keep it up!
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oh and with SAO 2 confirmed, you have a higher chance of getting more people to use this 
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Hi, Thank you for your advice, i'll mark down & do some adjustments
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Yup TvT Gun Gale Online. Im so happy ^^ and as for the sword art online fone beta ver. for andriod phone wasnt available for download besides japan and singapore.i was so damn angry because i waited so long for it...
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WUT Google Play Link
IT'S OPEN FOR EVERYONE (I think )
I can install it, but I don't have a phone anymore xP
If you're able to install it I'm willing to give my Bonus PIN to you
screenshot from my email
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I'll take you up on that bonus pin offer if no one else does. I have it installed on my phone.
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hello. After seeing so much great works in dA, I finally made an account so I could give feedback.
Bugs/Issues
1. Please reduce the volume of the link start sound by around 80-90%. It's sooooo loud. (I know I can do it myself by modifying the files, but I think it's better to change it for all users)
2. I use CursorFX, and my custom cursor disappears whenever I open the overlay.
3. I can't put long names.
4. Make animations slower. Activate the overlay. Close it before it finishes the animation. The exit animation looks weird.
Requests
1. More mouse gestures. It's annoying having to MMB+slide down especially when I'm a web browser. I'd prefer having it MMB+slide right. Some might prefer it up or left. Please add them.
2. More activation options. Not just the shortcut and mouse gestures. Probably something like ubuntu's hot corners. (you move your mouse to a specific corner on the screen)
3. More precise adjustments. I don't like options where you pick among "Short", "Medium", or "Long". I'm completely oblivious of how long these times are. Make them variables so users could choose how much milliseconds they want.
- this requires having to add more options panel sliders/number fields. Adding an "Advanced Options" section is a good idea.
- this applies to Long Press Timeout (in ms), Mouse Gesture sensitivity (in pixels), fixed Launcher Position coordinates, Animation Speed,
4. Add informative tooltips/popups (because default tooltips are too mainstream) to the items in the Options window. Some might wonder, "What the hell is this Verbose Mode option???" then would go googling for answers only to find out they won't be needing that option.
5. A less restrictive hotkey system. Button-"Change Hotkey", screen darkens and popup appears, have user press his desired hotkey.
6. Built-in languages.
7. Custom splash text.
8. Allow changing of relative coordinate position of launcher when set to follow cursor. (eg: I want the launcher to pop up 50 pixels higher than my cursor)
9. Instead of having the user long press/right click twice, add a small transparent black plus button on a corner.
10. Don't use default windows. Make your own windows. SAO GUI looks better. And having made this program, I know you're capable of doing it.
11. Auto adjust the width of things according to length of text in it (eg: name on the HP bar). This might be a lot of work especially if you're currently using static PNGs for GUI.
12. Try Launchy . Now, implement it's features and I'm gonna use this app forever!
13. Set up a website. Make a page for plugins. Make an API, if applicable.
14. Form a community. Adding the Online Users feature should also come with a simple chat feature. It allows users to freely talk and have friends, and having friends on a certain app makes people stay longer!
This app is so promising and I'm pretty sure this will be popular if programmed/updated well. Currently, as I can see, development is going slowly but at a constant rate. Keep up the great work and update the app more often, and I'm pretty sure it's gonna be popular in no time. Just keep adding more fancy and useful stuff and everything will go well.
Goal: replace Rainmeter! Go Go Go!
PS: If you need a Filipino translator, I'm willing to do it.
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Mine is at a Basic version i think and i just downloaded it. i got only three options in slide down menu. please help. and sorry if this is repost but i didn't see my other one up
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You can add your programs to the launcher by "long press operation", click on my develop page for more details
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So mine is at a basic version and i can find plugins. Help please? XD
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Is this working in Linux Base Operating system ?
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it's for windows & I'm not sure whether Wine will work.
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Since the bug report page has everything in Chinese I'm not sure if the issue's posted or not x-x So posting here instead, using LMB + RMB gesture causes the gesture system to crash. Irrespective of the 'No Disturb' option on/off. But using only LMB or RMB doesn't cause any issue.
And FREAKING AWESOME WORK!!!!!!
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Forgot to update about my end, the gesture crashes for me like every 5 minutes Q.Q And it has nothing to do with the gesture itself. LMB + RMB or only LMB or RMB or MMB, it just crashes every 5 minutes or so. Frequency increases if I'm using the mouse more(e.g. when working in photoshop).
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SAO Utils is crashing?
I think this is most probably caused by an external program. Check for programs that might be hogging/handling your mouse buttons.
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Not the software completely. Only the gesture component. If the gesture crashes, it stops working for a while and then a message pops up saying: Mouse Gesture has recovered. Now, for troubleshooting I did suspect some external programs as well at the beginning but even after turning them all off it didn't stop. At any normal ideal time all I have is Rainmeter and MSI Afterburner running in the bg. Neither are mouse dependant from my knowledge.
My guess is that it might be clashing with the graphic tablet driver or something. Though it's not always connected.
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Tried messing with my tablet and got this result. I'll update when I find out another possible cause/fix. XD
wooo my gesture is now broken as well
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there's issue with [No Disturb] option, when I open my game in full screen then minimized it, [No Disturb] option works fine but when I open the game (that I minimized before) and minimized it again, the gesture didn't work again like before.
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Do all the games have the same problem?
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Sure! It's compatible across win xp to 8.1
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Thanks GPBeta
It works perfectly on Win 8...somehow I have a slight problem on the starting animation.
I have two questions
1. The SAOUtil startup look somehow very laggish and very delayed, what would've cause this?
2. When is the next release of the other plugins and version?
Good work GPBeta on this sofware
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Hi, do you have a standard graphic card ? the startup animation may be laggy with a integrated graphic card.
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For some reason, the startup animation doesn't work on my pc :'c is not that important, but i would like to know a solution if possible u.u
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The startup animation requires separate video card(non-onboard/battery save mode), so if you both have on board and separate video card, you should switch to performance mode in your video card driver panel to make it works... if not, you can try to check about the video card driver and update it to the latest version.
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OK, thanks for answering
Today it worked somehow, but i restarted and didn't work...
Anyway, thanks for the support
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What types of plugins are you planing to put in to this program? Will there be a weather forecast plugin? What do you mean by online user plugin in the description on your site?
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The online user plugin is one of the base plugins of SAO Utils, it providing the list of online user to the another message plugin which is basing on email so that users can chat with other user using SAO Utils. Also, I'd like to make a TODO list plugin.
What's more, the AI assistance - YUI, is the plugin I want to make the most, of course, there're so many problems I have to solve for the AI design...
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Well, do you have a server? You need a server for that. As for the online user plugin, it's easy. You can have a list on your server to see which users are online. For the chat, you can probably forward to the User's IP so that the message is sent there, but if you do that, you will have to let them know that they need to open a port. As for YUI, what will she do?
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ah.... I'm holding the develop page on my friend's server, it's not very stable & crashes sometimes but I think that's enough for providing a list of online users...orz
And about the YUI, I think that would be an AI with distribution thinking & memorizing and just do what she want to
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Hey, nice work there!
What about integrating some speech recognition, text-to-speech and MMD into it and create a PMD of Yui-chan? Or it could be a plugin or separate program, it's just an idea.
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This utility is really usefull. It helps me a lot, and keeps my desktop clean xD I'm wondering, when will the beta release? Will it be more easier to use?
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Hey! Which programming language do you use?
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Hi, It's basing on wxWidgets and completly built with C++
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Ohhh. C++. Exactly what I thought. I might be able to help you then. I program mostly with C++ and C#, so that might work for me
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Thank you very much, I'll work hard on the plugin platform & be looking foward the plugins you'll write.
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Hello. I really appreciate the work you've put into this, it is very cool and intuitive to use. I'm wondering how to get the 3D mode, as in the screenshot. It'd be greatly appreciated if you could help me with this.
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the 3D menu & plugin platform will be as new feature in beta release, thank you!
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Just a suggestion but it will be really great if there is a plugin for emails and facebook chat that has the format same as the anime!!
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already planing to do that, but I have to finish the plugin platform first orz
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That's Great!!! I'm wishing you the best of luck and I'm looking forward to your great works..
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is it possible for you to let us edit the two last icons (if not, atleast the plugins icon)?
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Ah by the way, a couple of things that (I think) should be changed to make this even better than it is! (well closer to the anime atleast.. hahah)
First off, currently the main menu covers 3 and a half icon and even then the fade out effect is over the top half of the first icon (Example1) so the fade out should cover a smaller area (maybe an option to change the size of the area?)
Secondly when a menu icon is pressed it dosen't go to the top of the list. (example 2 and 3)
And Thirdly when an undermenu is pressed it dosen't go to the middle (example 4 and 5)
Lastly the Menu exit animation, well its supposed to go off towards the left side (Video example1, episode 1, around 15:42; Example 2, Episode 3 around 09:58; Example 3, episode 4 around 00:15)
I want to add that this is my opinion after watching the anime like a fanatic for everything that the UI is doing and writing down every occurence of it on a notepad and that I actually really appreciate what you have made!
I hope you continue with is and see this as constructive critisism
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Forgot to add the link to the picture examples..
Here it is: imgur.com/a/1BdH8
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