UPDATE # 3 - Lester finally does what I want.

I have been ridiculously stuck on the most basic function for the past few days... So much so that I didn't even feel I'd made enough progress to post about it. But today I've finally figured it out! There are many things still to be done, but this feels like my first big achievement - especially since I figured it out on my own.

The problem essentially was this:

In Auteur, you are able to call for a break during a shoot to let your actors regain energy (the bars next to their face icons which are not even a thing yet). Calling for a break is done by pressing the space bar, and turns the green light on the bottom-right icon into a red light.

As you can see, the red light has now appeared and Lester is walking to the side of the set. This was a struggle simply trying to define when he should be looking like he's walking and when he should be looking like he's idle. A lot of the time he'd be moving but not... walking? I had a lot of contradictions in my code.

Now that Lester has reached the end of a pathway I'd set for him, he reads his script! (He's meant to pull it out of his jacket but at the moment his "script-reading frame" just appears, which is fine for now).

And most crucially, when we hit the space bar again Lester returns to his original position. Now that I've figured this out, it should make his counter-part a lot easier to code in too.