AGS 3.3 Wishlist

ThreeOhFour · Tue 30/03/2010 12:18:19

I really wish we had the ability to change the highlight colour when mousing over text using the standard dialog gui (bottom of screen) style.

A game variable similar to game.text_shadow_color would be awesome - and it's the one colour we can't seem to change in game

Danman · Tue 30/03/2010 16:52:03

There is one feature I would always love. A Flood Fill to walkable area tool. I believe it would be very useful.
(When I say Flood fill I mean with only colors like just white) Especially for Sketches

Crimson Wizard · Tue 30/03/2010 17:03:48

Quote from: Danman on Tue 30/03/2010 16:52:03
There is one feature I would always love. A Flood Fill to walkable area tool. I believe it would be very useful.

But... there IS such tool $:-\$

Danman · Tue 30/03/2010 17:08:56

But for Colors only

. I never saw it.

Tentacles · Tue 30/03/2010 17:23:59

I'm going to dare to be a little different here. Since I have more practice in ruby coding, perhaps maybe have a switch that turns on the ruby coding option?

Crimson Wizard · Tue 30/03/2010 17:30:15

Quote from: Danman on Tue 30/03/2010 17:08:56
But for Colors only . I never saw it.

Sorry, I don't understand what you mean. Can you elaborate?

Danman · Tue 30/03/2010 17:59:48

Let say I draw a sketch out. I want only the area that I filled in red to be walkable. Like how Paint programs use the flood tool. But only to fill in that color to be a walkable area.

I got to be honest this is very hard to explain. I hope this makes more sense.
At the moment walkable areas, Hot spots, and Walk behind areas. Don't relate to the actual background. Sorry but has Crimson Wizard pointed out. this feature does exist already.

Thanks Crimson Wizard.

Crimson Wizard · Tue 30/03/2010 18:10:37

You can use masks to create walkable areas in AGS. Make a copy of your background in any graphic editor, then fill needed area with blue color, other areas with another colour (e.g. white). Then save as 8-bit image, and import as "walkable areas mask" in AGS.
If you need more separate walkable areas, you can fill them with other colours, like green, red etc.

Dataflashsabot · Tue 30/03/2010 18:19:38

Requesting that you bring back the Make My Game feature, I found it very useful.

Digital Mosaic Games · Tue 30/03/2010 23:32:56

1.
ItÂ´s always annoying because I canÂ´t script something with objects from a room in a roomscript when the Room itself isnÂ´t open and the objects arent selected!
This should be changed.
2.
And there should be more Regions because in some cases(in my case) it is helpful to have more.

These are the things which I can think of at the moment.

monkey0506 · Wed 31/03/2010 00:23:56

@NEON:

1. You say "objects from a room in a roomscript"..The only time anything in the room script (roomX.asc) will ever be executed is when the room is loaded. If I'm misunderstanding you then..perhaps are you saying you have to open the room for editing to edit the room script? Coz you can open the room script without opening the room itself..Or maybe you're saying that to link any events to room objects you have to open the room..? To me that's no different than having to open a character's pane to link events to the character. Maybe a better suggestion in this case would be context menu options for rooms to more easily open a room for editing and select a specific item such as hotspots, rooms, walkable areas, etc. with a single command instead of having to open the room, then select the item from the drop down. I could see the usefulness of that particular idea..

2. There's ways that you can work around the existing limit such as reusing regions and checking co-ordinates to simulate new regions. If you can present a reasonable case for why you'd need more regions CJ might be able to raise that limit though..

Digital Mosaic Games · Wed 31/03/2010 13:21:20

Quote from: monkey_05_06 on Wed 31/03/2010 00:23:56
@NEON:

1. You say "objects from a room in a roomscript"..The only time anything in the room script (roomX.asc) will ever be executed is when the room is loaded. If I'm misunderstanding you then..perhaps are you saying you have to open the room for editing to edit the room script? Coz you can open the room script without opening the room itself..Or maybe you're saying that to link any events to room objects you have to open the room..? To me that's no different than having to open a character's pane to link events to the character. Maybe a better suggestion in this case would be context menu options for rooms to more easily open a room for editing and select a specific item such as hotspots, rooms, walkable areas, etc. with a single command instead of having to open the room, then select the item from the drop down. I could see the usefulness of that particular idea..

2. There's ways that you can work around the existing limit such as reusing regions and checking co-ordinates to simulate new regions. If you can present a reasonable case for why you'd need more regions CJ might be able to raise that limit though..

1. I mean when I want to script "oDoor.Visible=true" in RoomX.asc and I want my little "Script-Help-Window" which shows you if you have everything written right, I must have open the RoomX and select "Objects" that my "Helping-Window" appears.

2. Because itÂ´s a simplerway to have more regions.

Jim Reed · Wed 31/03/2010 14:37:19

Dear Santa!

I would like a brand new toy car, and a way to make diagonal loops more customisable.

You see, as most of the games have some kind of a perspective that is not pure top-down, diagonal movement shouldn't be used in conjuction with orthogonal movement on a pure 4:4 basis. The diagonal movement should be more closer to the horizontal axis than the vertical axis. Unfortunately, not all games have the same perspective, so it would be nice to be able to chose at what angles shoud diagonal movement be used.

I hope you get my meaning, or I could provide a graphic example.
Obviously there is a coding workaround for this, so it isn't a top priority wish. But I still want a brand new toy car!

helios123 · Fri 02/04/2010 08:22:05

A very basic, template based character editor, like SSH's WalkCycle Generator, would be a welcome addition, as it would speed up the process of character creation, especially for newbies or those who suck at drawing, such as myself.

Native Parallax Scrolling would also be nice, as I think it would me more faster than doing the same through scripts...

Clarvalon · Fri 02/04/2010 08:31:09

My wish? That v3.2 be the last, so I'm not forever playing catch-up or concerned by feature-creep

subspark · Fri 02/04/2010 08:56:52

I agree with Jim Reed.

While I'm working on a whole new pathfinder system with a friend, I still stand by the suggestion of native support for a tool in which we can define the angles at which diagonal loops are activated.

We'd just have to place two symmetrical points down in the room editor.

Cheers,
Sparky.

Crimson Wizard · Fri 02/04/2010 16:37:46

I have a suggestion to make "Display multiple icons for multiple items" variable a member of Character or Inventory Window instead of global setting.

Sadistyk · Mon 05/04/2010 01:19:52

A 'Width' and 'Height' properties for the 'Graphic' member of the 'Object' object.

GarageGothic · Mon 05/04/2010 04:31:18

Quote from: Sadistyk on Mon 05/04/2010 01:19:52A 'Width' and 'Height' properties for the 'Graphic' member of the 'Object' object.

The Graphic property is just the sprite slot number, so to retrieve the height/width, you can read Game.SpriteWidth[oMyobject.Graphic] or Game.SpriteHeight[oMyobject.Graphic].

Dualnames · Mon 05/04/2010 13:29:46

How about walk-to-points property (X +Y) not read only.

hotspot[].WalkToX; is as it is now, read-only, I'd love it not to be. It's not a major thing, but it could help me in certain occasions, that I skipped with a workaround.