Actors (NPCs) Mod Freeze / Stutter / Crash

[VooWood]

This seems to be a new glitch since the recent Hitman WoA stopped the V3.1.1 stopped working so using the WIP builds.

I'm not 100% sure on the exact cause as when I've thought I've figured out a workaround they only end up working 50% of the time.

I believe the glitch is potentially due to moving the Actors Menu Mod (NPC's Menu renamed) from being a standalone mod that can be toggled on and off on it's own. To being included under the Editor Mod. Potentially because having the Editor Mod active while using the Actors Mod it might be related as that code is active? I know that I rarely used the Editors Mod before the Hitman WoA update and never experienced this glitch.

I originally thought this glitch occurred only when playing an Arcade mission or Elusive Target mission. However it seems to happen on any mission.

It seems to be something to do with the Actors mod not refreshing the details when selecting characters and as such when you start up a new mission and try to use the Actors mod it will freeze the game. The freeze is not a complete freeze as you can essentially hear the audio cutting in and out every second as if the game is trying to run code but unable to.

To reproduce play a mission using the actors menu before killing the targets. Just select any NPC should be all is needed. Complete the mission and start up another mission. When you go back to the Actors mod and select any new player it will cause the game to freeze / stutter. Sometimes it will just get stuck in the loading screen after completing a mission and going back to the main menu. Meaning you have to force close Hitman WoA.

You can also see this Actors mod not updating in a single mission. Select an NPC and then select a seperate NPC and it won't update the NPC's outfit and will continue to show the first selected NPC's outfit until you finish / leave the mission. The buttons below the outfit field such as "Teleport Actor To Player" still works teleporting the currently selected NPC it just doesn't update the currently selected NPC's outfit. So it might be something to do with that.

I also noticed the error in the screenshot the other day when hovering over the CharSet field.

I tried to upload short clips of the glitch happening but I'm not sure why but they're mp4 files and fail to upload