VanimateApp 0.8.9 RELEASE

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It's finally ready!

After a few days of delay, this month's release is finally ready.
It has a brand new pose animation system and quality-of-life improvements.

Now, what's actually in this release?

-Animation System
I changed how the animation system works, making it much more manageable.

In short, the old system relied on each character's pose to have its animation asset for each prop and each character partner separately.
This was fine when there were fewer poses, but as they grew, it became unmanageable, so I had to make changes.
The introduction of the Pose Editor was the perfect time to fix it.
So now I've increased the animation poses while using a quarter of the animation assets.
Making it much easier to edit and add new animation poses.

This means that there will be a lot more and better poses available.

Because I had to remake all the old animations to fit the new system in a short amount of time, there might be some issues, so if you see any, please let me know.

-Pose Editor
There were some improvements to the Pose Editor.
There is a new Flying Player Pawn in Pose Edit Mode, allowing you to fly around instead of walking, and there is no collision, so you can move anywhere you want.

You can now click on the Gizmo more easily without clicking the controls above it.

Character AI will stop while in Edit Mode.

You can enter and exit the Pose Editor from the Radial Menu.

-Character AI

Character AI Idle time changed, characters will wait longer in place before walking around, and will stay longer after you're done interacting with them.

You can now change the character AI Idle Time, inside Settings / Gameplay -> AI Idle Time.

-Remapping keys
Q and E are added to the Remapping options, allowing you to change Up and Down movement keys.

-Profile thumbnails Fix
Character profile thumbnails will now show up


-Note:
This is pretty much it for this release.
It's not that much on the surface, but the animation system is a significant change.
Ironing it out took a lot of time because it's integrated into many game logics.
However, the Pose Editor will work much better, and I expect to double the number of available poses in the next release.

You can always find me on our Discord server with questions or suggestions.
Thanks for the support, everyone!