AGS wishlist, from Pumaman's list

[Radiant]

I've read Pumaman's extensive list of ideas for AGS (it comes with the latest non-beta version) and came up with the following wishlist... I believe most of these should be relatively easy to implement, and very useful. Some of them may already have been done, sorry about that if I haven't noticed it.



Suggestions taken from your Future file
* save current line number in script editor when exiting editor and returning
 similarly, it should remember its last search string.
* How about shift-F3 searching backwards?
* export/import single GUI
* option for objects to block at their base / make characters & objects block like walls
* script 'modules', or #include (especially to break up a large main script)
 (easy way for instance is allowing three of them, to be edited by pressing
 ^1, ^2 and ^3, then the compiler simply concatenates them)
* option to not draw bottom half of character in areas, ie. shallow water
 (with option for a view to be displayed at the character's new bottom, for
 splashing water)
* make ctrl-A cycle none, walkable, walk-behind, hotspots, none.
* Patch system, to allow patching of finished games AND to incorporate other team members
 changes into the editor
* option to see room areas semi-transparent in editor
* right-click in edit hotspot/area/walkable/walkbehind editing should
 select the color you clicked on for drawing (rather than copying the cursor
 contents, which could be done in the room options panel as it is now)
* hotkeys for hotspot editing: L for line, D for draw, F for fill
* Option for new QFG3-style speech, where if no speech view it displays
 at the top as if there is one, rather than doing LEC-style as at present
* button to cycle through GUI Objects on a GUI
* allow to start drawing areas outside of the drawing area
* change tempo of music
* Loop oscillate animation (1-2-3-4-3-2-1-2-3-4 etc)
* zoom in on Areas tab, esp. for walk-behinds
* some function that does MoveCharacterBlocking() but that aborts the movement if the
 player clicks the right mouse button (or presses ESC); the function returns false if
 it was thus interrupted, true if it completes
* sound panning option to set left-rightness of a sound (eg SetChannelPan)
* Make characters block so you can't walk through them.
* stop chars moving through each other
* AddNewObjectToRoom(x,y,pic) to add a new object with no interactions
* multi-select in sprite manager
* walkable area have sound effect for footsteps
* function GetSubstring (string source, string dest, int start, int end)
* talking idle-anim - eg. blinking/flexing muscles. should be overlaid on top of
 normal talking anim occasionally
* option to skip entire dialog by pressing ESC
* manual setting of character zoom level (eg. for effects like character shrinking)
* option to flip frames of animation left-to-right

[strazer]

Some of them may already have been done, sorry about that if I haven't noticed it.

I noticed a lot of things in the file that are implemented already, so I thought about shortening it to reflect how much has been accomplished.

But I'm not sure if that text file is outdated and CJ actually keeps a more updated list.
And merely suggesting entries to remove would be the same amount of work for CJ as going through it himself, so I dropped that idea.

But it sure could use an overhaul... *hint, hint  

[Pumaman]

Yeah, I really need to sort out the to-do list - there are quite a few implemented and duplicated features on there, it needs an overhaul.

Originally, when I wrote the feature tracker the aim was for it to take over from the to-do list; but the effort of adding things to it and updating their states means that I haven't really kept up with it. Perhaps what I really need to do is keep bug-fixes and minor features on the to-do list, but put all larger features onto the tracker.

[InCreator]

* walkable area have sound effect for footsteps

...This is something really-really needed. If it exists already, someone tell me how to use it!  

* option to not draw bottom half of character in areas, ie. shallow water

Good one.

[TerranRich]

* walkable area have sound effect for footsteps

...This is something really-really needed. If it exists already, someone tell me how to use it!  

Of course it exists. Read the manual, it's in there.

Animations

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You will also see something marked "NO SND". If you click this, you can enter a sound number that will be played when this frame becomes visible on the screen. This is especially useful for footstep sounds.

The search feature is a wonderful thing.