DazedAnon
12e2ba0d01
- Implement checks for civilized terminology in camera focus events - Update event handling to suppress inappropriate pack language for civilized characters - Enhance narrative presentation to differentiate between family and pack language - Introduce new scenarios to validate significance of beats and relationships - Improve documentation to clarify narrative structure and event significance
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# IdleSpectator
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WorldBox NeoModLoader mod: AFK Idle Spectator camera director.
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## Controls
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- **I** - toggle Idle Spectator on/off
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- **F9** - toggle Character Chronicle side panel (non-modal; works with focus)
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- Dragging the camera while Spectator is on turns it off (after a short grace period)
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## What it follows
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The camera follows the developing lives and relationships of a five-character emerging cast. A story
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scheduler chooses developments that advance an active character thread, yields to critical world
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events, and returns only when the story has new evidence. `EventStrength` still models urgency and
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visual value, but it no longer owns continuity. Bounded character/world fill runs when no episode
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has a usable development.
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While watching, a **character beat caption** shows who they are (Identity), an orange **event
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sentence** (Beat), and muted Context (story spine or confirmed pressure). Main characters get
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`Name · Title` when they have a real role. The Beat is rendered once from typed event evidence, so
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relationship details are not appended a second time.
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Routine camera shifts stay with MCs or their confirmed Cast/story context. When a related non-MC is
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followed, a muted Connection row explains the MC link. Background lives still accumulate story
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potential off-camera and may earn a slot; only typed turning points, consequences, story payoffs,
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or critical world/disaster events can give an unrelated background character exceptional screen
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time. “World critical” is not inferred from score alone: it requires a typed active quake/outbreak,
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a crisis-scale disaster, or a materially contested large war.
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The orange Beat answers “why this shot now?” and is event-only: ambient grounding never falls back
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to species or job text. Exact named participants can carry a compact, typed MC-relative qualifier,
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such as `Kills Omya (child of Waf)`, when that relationship explains the event's significance.
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Civilized family Cast uses `Kin`; pack terminology is reserved for non-civilized creatures.
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Confirmed MC events, threads, consequences, Legacy, and Prefer choices are stored in a versioned
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per-world sidecar at the game save boundary. Runtime camera state and episode timing remain
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session-only.
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See [`docs/life-saga.md`](docs/life-saga.md) and [`docs/event-reason.md`](docs/event-reason.md).
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Lingering on someone writes a **Chronicle** line; F9 lists them and click jumps the camera.
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## Layout
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- `IdleSpectator/` - mod source (`mod.json` + C#), loaded/compiled by NML
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- `scripts/verify-nml.sh` - load verification helper
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- `docs/event-reason.md` - evidence, orange-reason, and camera-alignment contract
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## Deploy
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```bash
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ln -sfn "$(pwd)/IdleSpectator" \
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"$HOME/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/worldbox/Mods/IdleSpectator"
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```
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Requires NeoModLoader in `worldbox_Data/StreamingAssets/mods/` and **Experimental Mode** enabled.
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