and is it possible to make the character display an ‘idle’ animation in the direction of the character's gaze?
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I has been a long time since I last worked on this plugin, so I'm not entirely sure. However, I believe you can set the idle animation pattern with sprite indexes only to maitain the character current direction.
So, instead of setting the pattern as something like "d2i0, d2i1, d2i2, d2i1", just set it to "0, 1, 2, 1". If I'm not mistaken, that will only make the animation cycle through using the current direction the character is facing. Try it out and let me know how it goes.