[Question] Null Value Object Purpose

[Enthalpy]

I've begun looking over the raw v6 data in-depth for some magic of my own. While doing so, I noticed some objects in the JSON that can't have certain values set via the editor. For example, every profile object has the name value-pairs:

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"auto_place_position":"","auto_place":"","auto_colour":""

Yet there's currently no way in the v6 editor to set those three values to something other than "", making them useless by all appearances.

Are there plans to add auto-place, auto-position, and auto-color to the v6 editor at some point? If so, are there any other features that are planned but not yet coded? If not, why are those in the editor data?

[Unas]

I had forgotten about these fields - to be honest I'm not sure I want to implement such a system on V6.
These auto properties per character were not the best way to solve the efficiency issues with repetitive tasks - my plan currently is rather to implement some kind of "frame templates" that will be more polyvalent.
So don't bother with those, they will probably disappear.

Anyway, yes, the trial data contains some fields which are not yet used in the player or editor, because I expect to implement the corresponding features in the future. There is at least one more "yet to be used" field in the JSON that I can think of

[Enthalpy]

A cursory look at the trial data (which I expect I will get much more familiar with soon) yielded the following as having the data there, but being unimplemented:

* Background hiding in places
* Custom place positions
* AAI scenes
* Deductions for non-AAI scenes

[Unas]

A cursory look at the trial data (which I expect I will get much more familiar with soon) yielded the following as having the data there, but being unimplemented:

* Background hiding in places
* Custom place positions
* AAI scenes
* Deductions for non-AAI scenes

The first one is probably more a mistake on my part, as I don't think it'd be that useful. It's probably just because the place objects had this "hidden" attribute and I copied it over without thinking.

As for the rest, well, yes, that's in the plans for the future - but you're spoiling everything
You could also have noticed other things in the frame character properties, that I've mentioned in the past and will come at some point.