Why Are You Walking Backwards!?!

In the scene fin Herman is told that he needs to go put some pants on. He does it, but to get there, he walks backwards towards his hiding spot. This pathfinding bug occurs throughout the game when played in ResidualVM. When NPCs walk through a scene, sometimes, they do it backwards. Another example of this behavior is in the town scenes, such as on Lucre Island, an NPC will mosey on through town backwards.

A little late, but this is Herman walking backwards

In fact, in this scene, Herman not only walks backwards, but continues walking behind the monkey leg instead of stopping to talk to Guybrush. So, this is really a simple issue, Actors don't seem to stop when the stop_moving() method is run. A quick look at the stop_moving() method shows that it directly calls the Lua function ActorStopMoving. This is still a stubbed method, so this is why the actor doesn't stop moving. And then, because he doesn't stop moving, the next command tells Herman to turn, which happens while he's still moving, resulting in him walking backwards.

While further work might need to be done to get this function just right, a simple fix has been submitted in PR #884.