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Disguise User Guide

Ask AId3n

Ask AId3n is an AI-powered workflow assistant within our Designer software, created to optimise your production experience. Built with Llama 3.2, it comes with a deep understanding of Disguise workflows, designed to help you navigate Designer faster and more intuitively.

Running as an overlay within Designer, it offers users immediate access to AI-powered assistance without disrupting their workflow.

Ask AId3n leverages offline AI models, including Llama 3.2, to deliver powerful on-device capabilities ensuring the processing happens offline or over a local network only. By integrating Ollama, ChromaDB, and Conda, it enables a suite of AI-driven services that are installed and activated on your host machine when you run the plugin.

You can ask questions like:

“What is RenderStream?"

"How do I calibrate my projector?"

"Create a grid of screens displaying rainbow content.”

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Features

Interactive Chat

Natural language conversation is a way for computers to understand and respond to human language in a conversational manner about Designer. It provides context-aware responses drawing from Disguise’s help documentation, common workflows, best practices and technical specifications. Ask AId3n has the ability to ask follow-up questions and seek clarification.

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Ask AId3n provides sources for the knowledge it shares, linking back to the Disguise user guide.

Help Documentation Integration

Ask AId3n offers intelligent search through Disguise’s documentation, providing quick access to relevant information. During chat interactions, it suggests helpful articles and provides direct links for easier navigation. Additionally, it leverages documentation context to enhance log analysis, ensuring more accurate insights. For convenience, AId3n is also cached, allowing offline access or use within a local network.

System Requirements

  • GPU: NVIDIA 30xx series or higher gaming GPU with 8GB VRAM (Dedicated GPU capable of handling modern AI models.)
  • CPU: Multicore processor
  • RAM: Minimum of 16 GB recommended
  • STORAGE: 2GB free hard drive space

Install the Plugin

  1. Download the plugin from the Plugin Gallery.
  2. Install the application on a dedicated machine that will serve as your AI host. This does not need to be the same machine running Designer and should not be a Disguise server. Since the AI agent relies on local LLM models running on a GPU, ensure the machine has a dedicated GPU capable of handling modern AI models, such as an NVIDIA 30xx series or higher gaming GPU.
  3. During installation, a PowerShell window will open - there is no need to click on this, but if you do click on it, you may need to press Enter to continue installation.
  4. Restart your system after installation.

The plugin will automatically become available in Designer after a system restart. Upon restarting, the knowledge base will begin loading, which may take a few minutes. During this time, the system will display its progress in the plugin widget, provided it is open.

The Ask AId3n plugin icon is displayed in the Windows system tray if you need to access logs or manually quit at any time on your AI host machine.

Using the Plugin

To use the plugin, open it from the Plugin Launcher by clicking the Ask AId3n icon. The plugin will load and you can ask questions using the chat box at the bottom of the window. Responses will be generated using your local GPU on the AI host machine, and the response fed back in the interface.

View all of the available Designer Plugins in the Plugin Gallery.

Latest Release

The latest release of Ask AId3n is v1.0.1, available for download here.

Release notes (v1.0.1)

  • Added more logging to Ask AId3n standalone app.
  • Improved the suggested next prompts when interacting with Ask AId3n.
  • Added EULA to the Ask AId3n installer.
  • Updated the icon to Ask AId3n plugin.
  • Refined some under the hood prompts to provide better knowledge retrieval.
  • When upgrading Ask AId3n, the knowledge is rebuilt.
  • Added status information about knowledge building in the Ask AId3n UI.
  • Made the installer simpler to use by removing the prompt to download Ollama.
  • Fixed links in the Ask AId3n responses so they generate proper usable URLs.