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My hold Bubble Wrap has one level in which you switch between controlling Johanna and Gunthro (like clones). When Johanna had a Beethro template with the default avatar, this worked fine. However, when I installed a custom avatar for Johanna, the avatar displayed in the top-left of the playing area is always Johanna's even after switching to Gunthro.

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Nuntar, are you able to extract an example from your hold? Or you can tell me which level/room and I'll access it using my magic admin powers.

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The level is Two's Company, and it affects every room of the level.

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And a PR posted.

This was accompanied by a big rewrite of the widget that displays player's face, so I am attaching a test hold. Instruction are in the scrolls but here's a copy:

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Also, this PR changes one behavior - previously a speaking character's portrait was prioritised over player's dying animation, but this change swaps it. Even if someone is speaking you'll see Beethro flap his tongue around. It was not intentional, happened as a consequence of making something else work and I don't know if it's a good change or no-one cares about it. I can see reasons for keeping it and reverting it, so I'll leave it up to you to discuss and Mike to make the final call.

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10-08-2020 at 08:16 PM
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I'm OK with the player's dying animation taking precedence over someone talking. I think it's a more important event in that soon the player will be unable to perceive anybody talking at all anymore.

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10-08-2020 at 10:33 PM
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Chaco wrote:
I'm OK with the player's dying animation taking precedence over someone talking. I think it's a more important event in that soon the player will be unable to perceive anybody talking at all anymore.
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Tried out everything in the big test hold. Everything seems to be working fine in 5.1.1.alpha.2020-10-18, except with one major issue.

When the player falls asleep, they will no longer wake up until the game is quit. I leave the room in the editor and playtest again, still asleep. I go and change the hold then play a regular game in a different hold, still asleep.

Is it correct that the player will only fall asleep in "peaceful" rooms playing ambient music? I'm wondering why the player will not fall asleep in the Entrance.
10-18-2020 at 04:30 PM
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Ah-ha! Falling asleep was the issue, imma fix it. I'll also answer your question about falling asleep requirements when I sit down to work on this

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And fixed PR.

Generally Beethro won't fall asleep when danger level > 0, among myriad of other reasons. And I believe danger level is not updated once the room is started, so until you leave and come back you won't hear Beethro sleep.

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Can confirm this is now fixed in 5.1.1.alpha.2020-10-29. Beethro and Gunthro will now wake up correctly instead of being stuck asleep forever.
10-31-2020 at 06:17 PM
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