kemorig v0.6 release

An overhaul of the camera system for avatars and levels! Plus, a whole bunch of minor features and clean-up for the new year.

Much of this update was driven by the pain-points I've experienced building my own avatar. For example, nice camera transitions per-stance used to take a lot of Blueprint script -- now it's supported out of the box!

Also, Base-Kun has new features to use as reference, including Camera Positions placed inside the Avatar Blueprint.

New Features

• Camera System Overhaul

  • Avatar Stances and Interactions can now set the camera to a given Camera Position in an avatar or level.

  • New transition system for Camera Positions. Camera Positions can set transitions in and out. Blueprint functions can override those transitions.

  • New Component version of Camera Positions that can be placed inside of Avatar Blueprints.

  • New Blueprint function suite for manipulating the camera (SetCameraPosition, SetCameraPositionComponent, SetManualCameraPosition, and SetDefaultCameraPosition).

• Priority system for Tracking Settings and Camera Positions

  • Stance Groups and Interactions can be given a priority, which is used for stacking Tracking Setting and Camera Position settings.

  • Higher priority Stances/Interactions will override lower priority ones. If a higher priority one stops overriding Tracking Settings or Camera Position, the next-highest one will automatically go back into effect.

  • When overriding Tracking Settings, overrides per-category will now layer independently. This means a higher priority source can override only some categories of Tracking Settings, and lower priority settings in other categories stay in effect.

• Object Launcher

  • The included Object Launcher now has a Component that can be placed inside of Avatar Blueprints.

  • Added various new options especially to support impact sounds.

  • Properties are organized better and are easier to setup.

• Stances

  • New option to flag a Stance as the 'Off' Stance of the group.

  • New option to automatically go to the group's 'Off' Stance when re-entering a Stance.

• Multi-Interactions

  • Added AutoToggleOffLastSubInteraction option. If true, when a sub interaction is triggered, the previous sub interaction will automatically be toggled-off (if they are a toggle interaction)

Changes

• Changed example level folder names to match the level names. The 2 example levels are "KemorigDefaultLevel" and "KemorigDay".

• KemorigDefaultLevel's invisible floor is now less-ugly in the editor.

• Removed "AddToggleOffInteractionToList" option for Multi-Interactions. Was a poorly thought-out feature.

• Fixed various bugs/unintuitive behavior with Multi-Interactions.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed blueprint camera position blending preventing the user from manually moving the camera.

• Fixed KemorigLevelBlueprint not allowing you to create a child class of it in the editor.

• Fixed various warnings that would output in the editor.

Documentation

As part of this update, I've been doing a ton of catch-up on updating the documentation. In the coming days there will be updates to the kemorig.com docs:

• Many new pages, and overhauls of existing pages

• Added Level Authoring section with information on creating custom Levels and Level Blueprints.

• Added Avatar Blueprints page with information on writing custom blueprint logic.

• Improved the Blender Help section, with more accurate information and links to the PROTO Game Asset Tools add-on.

• Quick-Start Guide updated with the current version of the app with Base-Kun.

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