I would like to make a Save & Load system that works like Night of the Hermit; you click on slots you save and you can see the previously saved slot as a pic over the situation where you last saved. But I don't know how to do such thing. And you can bring up that menu by tapping F1 button.
Does anyone know how to do that or something similar? Maybe a turitoal?
NOTE: I don't use the regular AGS/Sierra GUI but the SCUMM/Lucas Arts GUI. Why? Two reasons. 1: Too many AGS games have that. 2: I prefer SCUMM system because the Lucas Arts games where the first adventure games.
Anyway, thanks in advice.
I think there was something in the knowledge base or a tutorial ages ago that i got. Someone else should be able to find it.
There is currently no automatic way to save a screenshot with a save game; but there are workarounds. Do a search and you should be able to find the thread.
Well, it is not exactly what youre looking for , but it gets close...
Try the "blue gui" , i think its in Games---NonAdventureGames or so...
If you look around in the forums you will find a tutorial so that you can even make your own GUI. You will not be able to make screenshot, in fact, but you can make some bmps of youre screenshots and put em in the gui, so it looks like you really shot the situation when you save the game. it is quite close indeed, i think noone would realise a difference...
actually i found the link:
http://art-heart-soul.com/blusoft/Download/download.html
it features downloads and a tutorial...
Just one question before I actually download this thing: Did Roy Lazorovich really use this method for his Save & Load menu for Night of the Hermit? I want to be ensure that I get what I want and not getting something that not works like it suppoused to. I hope you all understand this.
I opened the bluegui , and found no way to make a screenshot-save-load-gui. You were right, i thought i heard it somewhere... sorry.
Actually i found another tutorial by rogslate, that does what you want and it looks quite easy. Go to the AGS Docs section and look for the Rogslate Tutorial. Theres also a german version, if you understand german speech... It comes with some images of these S/L-Guis,
I think you will find what you re looking for...
Feel free to ask me again if anything is wrong... :)
Actually, those sites seem to either be down, or not archived properly (the german one) and I don't think I have a copy of that tutorial on my computer. Does anyone else know where we can find this?
I am guessing that you want to take a screen shot when you do a save game so that you can display same when restoring.
It's easy enough to add a screen save whenever you save the game and to manuafacture a unique filename. But, isn't the problem that AGS doesn't have a method of displaying an image file at runtime?
P.S. There is a better link to the BlueGui in my signature line below.