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0.8.1: Personality

Names and titles

• Names take colour codes. &6Carol is a gold name, using the same codes dialogue, signs and shop titles already understand. Nothing new to turn on, just type them in the name field.
• A title under the name. Blacksmith, Harbourmaster, Night Watch, whatever the NPC is for. It lives on the floating text screen with the sign, since one is text above the head and the other is text below the name. That screen is now called Floating Text and the Look tab button opens it.

Voices

An NPC can be given a voice: a short sound when it is spoken to, and on every line it says. Twelve vanilla voices to pick from, with a pitch control from 50% to 200% beside it.

The pitch is the part worth playing with. The same villager grunt at 70% and at 130% reads as two completely different people, so a short list of voices and a slider gets you a whole cast. Cycling through them plays each one, so you can hear what you are choosing. Talk tab, at the bottom.

Schedules

• A Stand entry can face a direction. Pick a bearing and the NPC holds it once it settles, so a shopkeeper faces across the counter instead of whichever way it happened to arrive. It still turns to whoever talks to it and goes back afterwards.
• Marking a spot points the NPC back the way you came from, so marking a counter from the customer's side leaves the NPC looking at the customer.

If you built a Stand entry before this update, it has been quietly storing a direction all along and never using it. It will start using it now, so a few NPCs may turn on their heels the first time you load the world.