Create a full body turn at idle without mouse input on an NPC

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Hello! I have a few questions, but let me start with what I’m trying to accomplish. I’d like a guide character NPC to turn in place to look at the PC when it’s stopped walking. (And no other time)

I have a few problems figuring this out, including:

  1. How do I get an NPC to turn in place without mouse movement? Not just head, but full body?

  2. How do I get that movement to not override the rest of my anim graph and only happen when the NPC is in idle and only if the PC has moved and the NPC needs to turn and look at them?

Every tutorial I’m finding on turning in place is using mouse input, or is doing a head look at constraint that overrides the rest of the anim graph which is not what I want. Does anyone have an answer on this?

Thank you!