enoops, (a member of our group) has a new game out - Synty based again . . .
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1509000/Mighty_Vikings/

I think the only way it *can* work is to make the npc a child of the ship. Playmaker would then let you move the child on a path relative to the parent, but I've forgotten most of what I learned about character animations under Playmaker, so changing behaviours from walking to talking might be awkward . . .

Thanks for that in-depth analysis Baron :) I'll get to look at it again sometime, I'm sure, but I got so bogged down with the immensity of all the poop I was trying to learn that right now I'm not doing anything with Unity. Just playing games and relaxing.
I swear if I have to try to understand one more person, (whose first language is not English) gabbling away nineteen-to-the-dozen about some complex functionality, I will throw my computer in the bin >:-{

I wasn't saying goodbye pombruv, just admitting my own failures. I'd still be interested to hear how you're getting on. . .

Good luck pombruv.
Me, I'm zipping up all my Unity projects and hiving them off to DVD. I am getting nowhere, mostly because I am just not sufficiently motivated to see things through. Ho hum.

I have no excuses now, do I? all the stuff that I wanted in RPGWorld seems to be there - apart from the terrain tools.
Time to learn how to make a terrain in Unity. . .

I do admire your dedication to your project pombruv :)

I have solved the issue by not trying to use it in 2020 and have reverted to 2018, which is fine for my project :)

Gah!
Did what you said, pombruv. Result? Warning messages cleared - hooray :), but - all prototyping assets became invisible! Not at all what I expected. My own fault really for using an asset last updated in 2017!

Thanks a bunch, pombruv :)
I did try to search the manual. It went into meltdown and was still searching 40 minutes later :(