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AGS Support => Beginners' Technical Questions => Topic started by: Saliva1994 on Tue 11/05/2010 01:11:14

Title: Drawing Backgrounds
Post by: Saliva1994 on Tue 11/05/2010 01:11:14
Im sorry for posting this but I am very new to AGS I have finished downloading the program a few Hours ago I read the tutuorial but I am stuck on this one area which I am sure many Of you know how to do but Ill ask anyway. How do you make a Background? ???
Title: Re: Drawing Backgrounds
Post by: Mouth for war on Tue 11/05/2010 01:18:19
Right click on Rooms and then choose "New room" choose "edit room" and choose "Change" to import a background. Everything is explained in the manual. Try looking around in the manual before asking about the basic stuff. Most likely you'll find your answers there
Title: Re: Drawing Backgrounds
Post by: GarageGothic on Tue 11/05/2010 01:48:41
And just to make stuff clear, you can't draw backgrounds in AGS - you will have to create them in another application (MS Paint or any other program listed in this thread (http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php?topic=32234.0)), then save them in a supported file format (I recommend PNG) and import into AGS the way Mouth for war explained.
Title: Re: Drawing Backgrounds
Post by: Khris on Tue 11/05/2010 07:54:35
It says right there in the manual's tutorial:

QuoteDraw the image in your favourite paint package, and once done, save it as a BMP or PNG file. Then, return to the AGS Editor, and press the "Change" button. Find the file you just created, and click Open.

If you've followed the tutorial, your game should be set to a resolution of 320x200 at 16bit. Thus, the best way to start is creating a new image of that size, paste one of the Roger sprites from AGS's sprite manager onto another layer as height reference and draw a simple room to experiment with.

I guess the three of us have now covered all the ways one can interpret your question ;)
Title: Re: Drawing Backgrounds
Post by: Saliva1994 on Thu 13/05/2010 01:44:00
Thank you once again im new and I am very sorry oh and thanks again  ;)