AGS v2.55 RC2 - Back to Basics edition

Jimi · Mon 05/05/2003 16:08:14

I think it would be good if you could zoom in on the backgrounds in the background editor, it would be WAY easier to do walk behinds!

Scummbuddy · Mon 05/05/2003 16:34:23

Jimi, please, before you make suggestions, check the tracker....

http://www.agsforums.com/tracker.php?action=detail&id=49

And you should know better than to add suggestions to a beta thread. Its only here for bug reports, not upgrade ideas.

Klaus · Tue 06/05/2003 09:55:31

Like Gilbot already posted beta 4 doesn't crash under WinME when dragging sprites. But it is throughout possible to drag and drop sprites to a different folder if the focus is set to the main menu or the folder tree - that way it is working fine

FenderQ · Tue 06/05/2003 10:09:44

I just finished trying to drag an image in the sprite folder to cause the editor to crash. It doesn't crash this time for me! Windows 98SE

Spyros · Tue 06/05/2003 14:26:03

I tried it in Win98. beta 3 crashed this one doesn't

Pumaman · Tue 06/05/2003 21:44:08

Ah good, glad to hear it. But what you're saying is that drag and drop doesn't work at all if the window has the focus? Ah well, better than a crash.

Gilbert · Wed 07/05/2003 12:02:06

Nah, not for me at least.

Maybe it's possible to add a "move to folder..." function in the right click menu? (Heh it's not important to me as I won't need to move the sprites anyway)

scotch · Wed 07/05/2003 13:56:00

The drag and drop doesn't work on my Windows 2000 either, would be nice to have though.

Klaus · Wed 07/05/2003 15:09:19

Hm, for me (WinME 4.90.3000) it really works with this (focus) trick: Click on the folder name (eg Main) so it's blue, then drag the sprite directly to another folder (eg Defaults) without any other clicking before.

TerranRich · Wed 07/05/2003 15:42:33

Dammit CJ! Now I'm going to have to change the name of my custom function, also called DisplayThought!

All kidding aside, v2.55 ÃŸ4 looks awesome! Thanks!

Pumaman · Wed 07/05/2003 21:00:45

Quote from: scotch on Wed 07/05/2003 13:56:00
The drag and drop doesn't work on my Windows 2000 either, would be nice to have though.

really? What, if you try and drag a sprite, nothing happens? Strange, it's worked on all the win2k/xp systems I've tested it on so far.

scotch · Wed 07/05/2003 21:11:35

Tried it again.. and no, absolutely nothing happens if I drag a sprite :/

Adamski · Wed 07/05/2003 23:24:13

Re: the Byzantine Demo crash, it seems it's to do with having anti-aliasing turned on in the intro on Windows 9x systems. Perhaps that'll shed some more light on the error message...?

Pumaman · Thu 08/05/2003 17:56:06

Quote from: Dark Stalkey on Wed 07/05/2003 23:24:13
Re: the Byzantine Demo crash, it seems it's to do with having anti-aliasing turned on in the intro on Windows 9x systems. Perhaps that'll shed some more light on the error message...?

Ah, that's interesting. For now the workaround is obviosuly then to disable antialiasing, but I'll look into it and see if there are any obvious problems with the code.

I've had another report of AA crashing the engine, so I might have to remove it completely to be safe.

scotch · Thu 08/05/2003 18:14:53

Actually in this case Fuzzpilz said turning off the 85hz option solved it.. the other report was of turning them both off.. so it seems it's the 85hz that's causing the problem..

Pumaman · Fri 09/05/2003 14:09:08

Hmm, that seems like there's something more random at stake here - all the 85 Hz option does is change the request to DirectX when the game starts up. It should have no affect during gameplay.

I'll look into it.

TerranRich · Tue 13/05/2003 05:25:56

Well, it seems as though my DisplayThought problem is worse than I thought. The only way I could feasibly integrate your new function into my game is to keep Sierra style (the default in my game) while thinking, instead using a different thinking animation. My original custom function had it switch to LEC style (with outlined text above the head), display speech, then back to Sierra style.

What I was thinking instead, was to add an additional parameter that sets the style of speech for thoughts. Say 0 for default, 1 for Sierra, 2 for LEC, 3 for QFG4, etc. This way, if a game (like mine) is normally in Sierra style for talking, but I want LEC style for thoughts, I could set this additional parameter to 2.

Would this work?

Pumaman · Tue 13/05/2003 19:50:26

thanks for the feedback, I'll certainly consider that.

Pumaman · Sun 18/05/2003 01:14:21

The last couple of weeks I haven't really had the time or motivation to work on AGS, so I think it's best if I finish up this version and get it released.

With that in mind, RC1 is now released with a few minor changes from the last version. Hopefully if no bugs are found it can become the final version.

MrColossal · Sun 18/05/2003 10:29:32

i'm very sorry if this has been addressed but i read through all the replies and used the useless search function and i didn't see this so here's hoping

i have a 256 colour game 320x200, i turned on AA scaled characters and dinked around, looks good so far until i switch scenes with fade in/out for my transistion

my character is completely black until it's done fading in and then it refreshes to normal aliased scaled sprite

on any other transition it works fine

here's hoping i'm not repeating someone, i don't want the comfy chair again!

eric