NPC characters
- Articulated rig (hips/knees, shoulders/elbows/hands) replaces rigid capsules;
the walk cycle bends knees and elbows and flees with a longer stride.
- Layered outfits (jacket/vest/coat/dress), extended accessories and hand items
(bag, umbrella, phone, camera, clipboard, cup), face details and five hair
silhouettes, all deterministic per profile seed.
- Idle behaviour layers (phone, clipboard, crossed arms, look-around), breathing
and weight shift; escalation raises hands or points, and noticed NPCs turn
toward the guard.
- Reaction symbols above the head (!!, ?!, !, ?), door-queue offsets assigned by
GameManager, three LOD tiers with hysteresis and a billboard impostor.
- smoke_npc_budget.gd: 16 avatars = 534 meshes, ~6.9 ms average (50 ms budget).
Player movement
- Separate accel/decel, step-up assist for kerbs and the entrance steps, and a
forward-axis fix: W was inverted (get_axis(forward, back) is negative).
- Head bob, landing dip and precision-walk FOV, gated by persisted head-bob and
invert-Y settings; precision chip and tick; surface-aware footsteps and a
landing cue forwarded to AudioFeedback.
- Gamepad support (sticks, deadzone, face buttons, bumpers), a control legend
that follows the active device, and named actions for the remaining keys.
- Key/button remapping in Settings, persisted as input_bindings and applied by
InputBindings (mouse and gamepad axes are never removed).
- smoke_movement.gd (windowed): climbs the steps, checks precision speed, chip,
footsteps and landing; new 11-precision-walk capture and catalogue entry.
Verification: headless 208/208, Python tooling 56/56, all 11 smokes pass,
compare 11 good / 0 bad, movement judge match. Version 0.5.0. Only optional
Future ideas remain in TODO.
- AudioFeedback.start_crowd_bed() builds a 4 s looping AudioStreamWAV at runtime
(one-pole filtered noise plus a 68/103 Hz drone, seeded) and set_crowd_level()
maps crowd mood 0..1 to -34..-12 dB, so the street gets louder as it gets
agitated or panics. The bed starts with the shift and stops at shift end.
- play_radio_open()/play_radio_close() push short filtered-noise bursts; wired to
opening the radio panel, submitting a report, cancelling, and closing the panel.
- Still asset-free and headless-safe: with a dummy audio server the calls no-op.
_free_player() returns null before _ready and callers handle it.
Tests/docs
- Headless suite 127 -> 134 (test_audio_feedback.gd).
- New smoke_audio.gd: bed playing, level follows mood events, radio crackles once
per open/close, bed stops at shift end. Verified windowed (real audio server).
- README, TODO section moved to DONE, MEMORY. Version 0.2.8.
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