Topic: Re: AGS Draconian Edition r7 + HOTFIX (February 13, 2013)

[subspark]

Well, seems you're lucky, it was just necessary to add a "=100" to agsdefns.sh, otherwise I would never have done it, ahah.

Oh good. I'm glad it worked. This means Draconian AGS is now still compatible with previous incarnations which I thought was important.

And thanks for the syntax. My region probs have dissolved.  

[Alan v.Drake]

Where's my feedback ? Does everything actually work just fine ?

Previous feature suggestions will be evaluated with unrelenting slow pace, as usual.

By the way, if one of you could help me by implementing d3d shaders I sure would not mind.

- Alan

[xerca]

When I skip a cutscene, it plays all the sound effects that would be played in the cutscene at the same time. It is really annoying. I usually compile the game with vanilla AGS after finishing the work as a workaround. But I think it could be something to be fixed.

[Alan v.Drake]

When I skip a cutscene, it plays all the sound effects that would be played in the cutscene at the same time. It is really annoying. I usually compile the game with vanilla AGS after finishing the work as a workaround. But I think it could be something to be fixed.

Fixed. AGS Draconian r4

While debugging I happened to find a problem with audio channels, I can't say if it was by design, but assigning any value other than 0 to MaxChannelss in the editor under audio types effectively decreases the channels you can  (safely) use , let's do a few examples:

Type "Music" MaxChannels 1 (7 Channels Available)
Type "Ambient Sound" MaxChannels 3 (4 Channels Available)
Type "Footsteps" MaxChannels 2 (2 Channels Available)
Type "Sound" MaxChannels 0 (CAN PLAY ONLY TWO SOUNDS AT ONCE!)
Despite the inability to play more than two sounds there should not be grave errors.

Now let's see another more devious example:

Type "Music" MaxChannels 1 (7 Channels Available)
Type "Ambient Sound" MaxChannels 3 (4 Channels Available)
Type "Footsteps" MaxChannels 2 (2 Channels Available)
Type "Sound" MaxChannels 7 (You would think "that should do the trick".  No, you're begging for trouble)
Exceeding the available channels will only lead to sudden errors whenever you least expect it, expecially when skipping cutscenes!


- Alan

[Shane 'ProgZmax' Stevens]

Alan:  I'm not sure if anyone's asked you this in this thread yet, and it's something I know Calin has mentioned elsewhere, but could you possibly make code folding optional via the preferences menu?  I absolutely cannot stand it;  I mean I literally want to punch my monitor whenever I go up to select a function and it somehow clicks just a micron to the left and closes the entire thing.

I'm also hoping to see this done for the official beta as it's currently driving me up a wall.

Thank you!

[Alan v.Drake]

Alan:  I'm not sure if anyone's asked you this in this thread yet, and it's something I know Calin has mentioned elsewhere, but could you possibly make code folding optional via the preferences menu?  I absolutely cannot stand it;  I mean I literally want to punch my monitor whenever I go up to select a function and it somehow clicks just a micron to the left and closes the entire thing.

I'm also hoping to see this done for the official beta as it's currently driving me up a wall.

Thank you!

Just recompile the source without the folding, or overwrite AGS.Control.dll with an older one.
I never had a problem, if I want to select a line or more I just click and drag on the number area and it's done, or right to left if I'm highlighting from the bottom-up.

Or, you know... you could make code folding optional via the preferences menu and give me the code so I can put it inside

- Alan

[subspark]

Where's my feedback ? Does everything actually work just fine ?

No feedback was necessary. It worked as was portended.

Thanks again.

[suicidal pencil]

AGS vomited an error at me while I was using (a slightly older) version of your editor. Details are here: http://www.bigbluecup.com/yabb/index.php?topic=45713.0

[Alan v.Drake]

AGS vomited an error at me while I was using (a slightly older) version of your editor. Details are here: http://www.bigbluecup.com/yabb/index.php?topic=45713.0

I hope you had a backup, that looks dangerously like the usual did-not-save-properly ags editor problem
Make a backup of Game.agf (it'an xml file where your game is saved, the editor is telling you there's somthing wrong with it, so problably it's truncated at the end, bad save?) and rename Game.agf.bak. If you're lucky it will work.
If not you'll have to carve recreate the project and copy the pieces from the old agf to the newer.

- Alan

[Ryan Timothy]

Hey Alan, I'm only going to post this in this thread since it should theoretically be a super easy function to add to your current version of the AGS editor. And should have been added to the current AGS editor years ago.

The IsInteractionAvailable is quite basic. It only works for X and Y with the mouse Mode.
IsInteractionAvailable(int x, int y, int mode)


Now there is:  InventoryItem.IsInteractionAvailable(CursorMode)

Would you be interested in adding an extender function that works for the rest:
Character.IsInteractionAvailable(CursorMode)
Object.IsInteractionAvailable(CursorMode)
Hotspot.IsInteractionAvailable(CursorMode)

[monkey_05_06]

Ryan. That needs to be added to the engine, not the editor. I say that simply because unless the character/object/hotspot is the currently exposed item at its own coordinates (which are impossible to determine for hotspots unless the WalkToX and WalkToY have been expressly set) then the only function we have to test if an interaction exists for the item is IsInteractionAvailable, which as you note, isn't sufficient.

Clearly the engine is already doing this after some fashion, we just need an exposed function to check it (meaning that an engine plugin would be sufficient, although ridiculous just for such a simple effort).

Oh, and I know Drake has done some stuff with the engine of course, just making a point about where it would need to be added (it would then also need to be included in the editor's built-in headers or else it wouldn't autocomplete ).

P.S. You're making me really want to start digging into the engine code again now (been working on structuring some other things first).

[Alan v.Drake]

Done.
To celebrate today's forum renewals I'm releasing this build, thoroughly UNtested.

AGS Draconian r5 beta (April 13, 2012) DOWNLOAD

• Character.ChangeRoom(int room, int x, int y, int loop) so no one will have to resort to dirty hacks to set the proper direction, i suggest to define an enum for directions.
• Object/Hotspot/Character.IsInteractionAvailable(CursorMode) to make Ryan happy

Tell me if something doesn't work.


- Alan

[Ryan Timothy]

Yes Monkey, I realize it's on the engine side. This thread was also moved into Editor Development sub-forum after my hopeful suggestion.
I only suggested it to Alan because he's been adding some engine stuff and this should be super trivial compared to the other stuff he has added. Also because there have been suggestions of this becoming the new default AGS.

• Object/Hotspot/Character.IsInteractionAvailable(CursorMode) to make Ryan happy

You've indeed made me happy--and I imagine lots of other people as well. ;)  Thanks!  I'll give it a run through soon and then get everyone in the JoI team to start using it.

[DCS78]

character.ChangeRoom(302);

Output windows says:
'[' expected.

[Dualnames]

character.ChangeRoom(302);

Output windows says:
'[' expected.

character[ID HERE].ChangeRoom(302);

For the player character:
player.ChangeRoom(302);
or
character[player.ID].ChangeRoom(302);

[DCS78]

Thank you.

[subspark]

Why now AGS you hate of me? -_-


I received this error since Draconian r1 when interacting with NULL:

Note: This wouldn't occur in Vanilla.


And now I get the this error when running the game in r5:


Any clues that might help?

[Alan v.Drake]

I received this error since Draconian r1 when interacting with NULL:

I'm afraid I'll need to look at the code.

And now I get the this error when running the game in r5:

Any clues that might help?

For this one a "Rebuild all files" should do the trick. It's due to ChangeRoom accepting up to 4 parameters, the files has to be rebuilt so the editor can update the calls to the function.

- Alan

[subspark]

I'm afraid I'll need to look at the code.

No sweat. I PM'd you what you're after.
Ta!

[Alan v.Drake]

Worry not guys, subspark's  problem was a scripting issue.

I was wondering, what should be the behaviour when someone uses ChangeRoom setting a loop that doesn't exist ? Should I leave it as it is now that if the loop is invalid ags picks the first (maybe) available or just do nothing instead ?


- Alan