The Walking Simulator Engine is an engine for creating dynamic and visual narratives. For a narrative to take place we will need interactions between characters and that’s just what we have been focusing on in this iteration. When in a good mood the AI will now meet and chat.

Full list of improvements in v0.0.0.80

New Features

• Characters will now meet and greet one another

Improvements

• Main character model changed to one more in keeping with the Far World fantasy environment
• Improved limb animations of characters
• Wander behaviours will now automatically adapt to smaller navigable areas to provide more realistic wandering decisions

Bug Fixes

• Characters will now remember their true “home” location and will not wander too far from it
• Turn Foot and Head IK off when the character goes to sleep
• Watched commands in terminal work again

Technical Debt

• Automated test suites for specific character behaviours
• Enable logging of commands to UI for easier tracking of test videos
• Multiple test scripts and accompnaying scenes
• Refactor the way StatInfluencers are managed to improve flexibility and efficiency (StatInfluencers are what makes an interaction or object affect a characters stats)
• Move scene settings into scriptable objects for more robust lookup of configuration