PLEASE BACK UP PROJECTS BEFORE UPDATING.

Version 1.81.6:

-Added: Performance improvements when saving games that already have saves present

-Added: Option for Direct-controlled games that use Player Vicinity detection to still require the cursor to be over the Hotspot for interaction

-Fixed: Graphic Options template's Dropdown labels not being included in translations

-Fixed: "ActionList: Set parameter" Action sometimes not running under certain conditions

-Fixed: Default interface sometimes causing inventory items to be un-selectable after closing the Pause menu

Version 1.81.5:

-Added: The Auto Lip Sync component now relies on the attached character's "Speech AudioSource", if assigned

-Added: Unity UI-based Label, Graphic and Journal elements can now disable their UI components, rather than their GameObjects, when hidden

-Fixed: AC-based Menus still being directly-navigable when the Input system is disabled

-Fixed: The default Pause menu not opening if it has no transition

-Fixed: Events not being included in the "Gather text" process

-Fixed: Graphic elements in AC Menus not resizing according to the "Fallback texture" in Edit mode

-Fixed: Unwanted Console warnings sometimes appearing upon entering Play mode under certain conditions

-Fixed: Error message when closing sub-scenes under certain conditions

-Fixed: Third-person camera's distance being limited by the Raycast distance when no collision is detected

-Fixed: Unity UI Cursor not always displaying an Inventory item's optional cursor graphic, if assigned

-Fixed: Save game files made before v1.81 sometimes not loading in later versions

-Fixed: Actions with multiple outputs not running under certain conditions

-Fixed: Remember components attached to objects spawned using the "Object: Add or remove" Action not respecting their "State on start" values

-Fixed: Minor styling issue with the "ActionList: Set parameter" Action

-Fixed: Transition times not being set when the "Sound: Play" Action is generated through script

-Fixed: Unity 6 compatibility issues

Version 1.81.4:

-Added: "Inventory / Hover" event to the Events Editor

-Fixed: Issues with Inventory item selection if Unity UI menus are used in combination with the "Left click deselects active item?" option

Version 1.81.3:

-Added: Message box to the Cursor Manager if a Unity UI Cursor is assigned that does not automatically change its appearance

-Added: Functions to the MenuInventoryBox script to get the slot index occupied by a given Objective or Document

-Changed: The Player Land component's "Height Threshold" field has been relaced with "Fall Threshold"

-Changed: The 3D Sample Player's Land animation now always plays by default

-Fixed: DialogList element's "Mark options already used?" property sometimes not being read in Unity UI-based menus

-Fixed: "World Space Cursor Example" component not working when "Use AC Cursor" is checked

-Fixed: Script compilation error in Unity 2021.3

-Fixed: Unity UI Cursor component directly referencing Unity's Input Manager

-Fixed: Footstep sound raycasts not originating from the character's position, if assigned

-Fixed: Conversations not running correctly if they are re-run immediately with an "ActionList: Run in parallel" Action

-Fixed: Issue loading XML saves made before 1.81.0

-Fixed: AC Menus set to appear "During Gameplay" sometimes displaying in between a fade-out and a scene change

-Fixed: Drag Track snap region ActionLists sometimes not running when a Draggable reaches its vicinity

Version 1.81.2:

-Fixed: "Third Party: Playmaker" Action not exposing its "Event name" field in its UI in v1.81.0

-Fixed: Issues with the "ActionList: Run" Action in v1.81.0

Version 1.81.1:

-Fixed: Unity UI Cursor prefab getting duplicated when loading a save-file in the same scene

-Fixed: "Unity UI blocks interaction and movement?" option not being respected when deselecting Inventory items

-Fixed: ActionList assets not properly referencing scene objects in v1.81.0

Version 1.81.0:

= Upgrade notes =

-The Scene Manager's "On variable change" Cutscene has been removed - replaced by the Event runner component's "Event / Change" events

-The Footstep Sounds component, and "Sound: Change footstep sounds" Action, have been updated to rely on the new Surfaces system - AudioClips will need to be re-assigned

-The OnCharacterHoldObject and OnCharacterDropObject events now take the attachment point's ID number as their third parameter

-The Scene Manager's "On variable change" Cutscene has been removed - replaced by the Event runner component's "Event / Change" events

-Save-game data now uses Invariant culture by default - for compatibility with older saves in non-English systems, this may need disabling in the Settings Manager

= Characters =

-Added: Ability to define additional "attachment points" for a character to hold objects with using the "Character: Hold object" Action

-Added: Option for 2D characters to evade one another by pushing, as opposed to carving holes in the NavMesh

-Added: The Player stopping when a Hotspot interaction is set to "Do Nothing" is now optional

-Changed: The OnCharacterHoldObject and OnCharacterDropObject events now take the attachment point's ID number as their third parameter

-Fixed: PlayerStart objects with no previous scene data not being referenced when using the "Player: Teleport inactive" Action if the Player has no previous scene

= Footsteps =

-Added: Surfaces editor - use to define Surfaces, which store footstep sounds that can be played when a character moves

-Added: The Footstep Sounds component can now auto-detect which sounds to play, based on the naming convention of the Physic Material of the Collider being stepped on

-Added: OnRequestFootstepSound event - called when a character is about to play a footstep sound, allowing it to be altered with custom scripting

-Changed: The Footstep Sounds component, and "Sound: Change footstep sounds" Action, have been updated to rely on the new Surfaces system - AudioClips will need to be re-assigned

= Demo =

-Changed: The 3D Demo's models now use Shadeless materials, for cross-compatibility with all render pipelines

-Fixed: Minor camera smoothing issues in the 3D Demo scene

= ActionLists =

-Added: Actions can now be grouped in the ActionList Editor window, which can then be named and coloured to help with logic organisation

-Added: The mouse cursor in the ActionList Editor window now changes icon based on the current drag mode, to make its function more clear

-Added: ActionList fields in the AC Game Editor window now have buttons beside them to quickly edit them in the ActionList Editor window

-Added: Scene-based Actions can now reference GameObjects in other scenes, provided both are open at the same time

-Added: Option for Triggers that rely on ActionList assets to set local parameter values

-Changed: The Scene Manager's "On variable change" Cutscene has been removed - replaced by the Event runner component's "Event / Change" events

-Changed: Actions are no longer listed in the Inspector window by default

-Fixed: Conversations in nested ActionLists not running when its parent list is waiting for its completion

= Templates =

-Added: "Animated Cursor" template - adds some subtle animations to the cursor to quickly the interface some polish

-Fixed: Templates that involve custom Actions sometimes failing the installation process

-Fixed: Sample First-person Player prefab not crouching if the camera's "Head-bob method" is set to "Built In"

= Menus =

-Changed: The Menu property "Pause game when enabled?" has been renamed to "Pauses game?"

-Fixed: Remember components attached to Menu prefabs sometimes being registered multiple times

-Fixed: Text that relies on Localization not updating correctly when "Auto-sync Locale with Language?" is checked

-Fixed: Animated Graphic elements restarting when placed inside Inventory menus

-Fixed: "Right-click active item" option not being respected while the cursor is over a Menu

= Save games =

-Added: Option to use Invariant culture for saving, which helps maintain save-game compatibility across different system languages

-Changed: Save-game data now uses Invariant culture by default - for compatibility with older saves in non-English systems, this may need disabling in the Settings Manager

-Fixed: SavesList elements set to save to a fixed slot ID not saving correctly if the intended slot is currently empty

-Fixed: Issue when saving if a game has Menus but no Elements within them

= Editor =

-Added: Ability for the Scene Manager to fire an event - assigned in its Inspector - when organising a scene, to allow for custom modification to the Hierarchy

-Fixed: Deprecation warnings in Unity 2023 / Unity 6

= Misc =

-Added: Option to the Remember Animator component to have the Animator's parameter values to be retained when disabled

-Added: "Inventory RawImage" field to the Unity UI Cursor component - when assigned, its Texture will be set to the currently-selected Inventory item

-Fixed: The ActionMovie script's CreateNew_Stop function not assigning the VideoPlayer parameter

-Fixed: The "Variable: Run sequence" Action's linked variable having the wrong value after being skipped

-Fixed: Narration text-scroll audio not respecting the "Speech scroll audio is" option to play from the Speech channel

-Fixed: Issues with the "Physics: Raycast" Action's "From Origin Forward" mode

-Fixed: "Compare with" field missing from the "Variable: Check" Action

-Fixed: Issues with additive scene loading using Addressables

-Fixed: Draggable movement on touch-screens being frame-rate dependent

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