# Create a moment from scratch
## What is a moment？What is the difference between creating a character and capturing a moment ？
Moments are essentially the stuff we see on the homepage. \
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We can chat directly to a moment, however we cannot chat directly to a character.\
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Creating a character involves both writing the character's settings and generating the corresponding Moment. \
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Capturing a Moment allows other players to alter the timeline, background, relationships, and other external contexts based on the original character settings, enabling them to chat with the existing character. Additionally, you can only capture a moment on publicly available characters.
## What is the difference between character setting and moment setting?
Character Setting: Defines the character's personality, traits, etc. \
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Moment Setting: Defines and supplements the scene, environment, relationships, etc. \
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Please do not have any overlap between the two, as it will increase the AI's reading length (input tokens), thus raise Ruby costs, and make the AI more likely to output repetitive content.
## Create a Character
**Select character from the side bar**
**Select gender**
#### Create character image
You can upload a character image using **Album** or you can generate a character image from our image generation engine using **Summon.**
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We support .gif uploads for character images (<=5 MB file size)
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After you have picked your image, you will see this:
Crop your avatar from the image and press **Confirm**
**(Optional)** You can add sound to the character as well for TTS, here's how:
You can pick voices, or you can upload voices by your own:
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Make sure the audio you uploaded/recorded is between 3 to 8 seconds with minimal noise. You can choose to upload to voice library, and make sure you fill in the naming and category.
Then, fill out the name, intro, setting, and tags.
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**Memory** in advanced settings are for the existing memories of the character AND/OR how the world your character in works.
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You can also use dialog style to refine how the character talks.
## Create a Moment
After you finish creating a character, you still need to create a moment in order to chat.
Fill out the Moment Title and Opening (which will be displayed) to finish creating the character.
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If the permission is invisible, it will be only sharable using links and will not be reviewed by our content review team.
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## Edit a Character
You can edit the character here.
## Edit a Moment
You can edit the moment here.
