Adventure Game Studio

AGS Support => Beginners' Technical Questions => Topic started by: on Sun 13/07/2003 09:31:32

Title: Good Dowloading Site?
Post by: on Sun 13/07/2003 09:31:32
Does anybody know a good ags dowloading site for toolbars and characters?
Title: Re:Good Dowloading Site?
Post by: juncmodule on Sun 13/07/2003 12:09:49
I have been trying to put something like this together. So far it is slow going.

You can get some Sierra and LucasArts characters here:

http://www.juncmodule.com/juncSource.html (http://www.juncmodule.com/juncSource.html)

Currently the #1 and best resource is InstaGame:

http://www.sylpher.com/ig (http://www.sylpher.com/ig)

For a few special GUI's check out Proskrito's LEC GUI's:

Fate of Atlantis GUI:
http://galeon.com/golfa/otros/SCUMM-FOA.rar (http://galeon.com/golfa/otros/SCUMM-FOA.rar)

DOTT and Monkey Island:
http://usuarios.lycos.es/golfapagina/bazura/ (http://usuarios.lycos.es/golfapagina/bazura/)

I would recommend starting with InstaGame. It is a pretty complete set of backgrounds and characters and they are free to use. Great stuff.

good luck,
-junc
Title: Re:Good Dowloading Site?
Post by: on Sun 13/07/2003 12:26:46
I want to use some of those GUIs but I dont know where to save them and when I do I dont know what to use to open the file?  
Title: Re:Good Dowloading Site?
Post by: juncmodule on Sun 13/07/2003 12:47:32
You will need to download WinRAR or something that opens RAR files. This is the WinRAR site:

http://www.rarlab.com/ (http://www.rarlab.com/)

The GUI's have been saved as templates. Just place this in the directory that the "agsedit.exe" is in. Then start a new game. You will be prompted to select a template and name your game. The game will load with a preset GUI and some demonstration backgrounds and characters.

A word of warning about the LucasArts GUI's. Depending on how quickly you can learn about AGS you may want to put off using those GUI's for a little while. They are script intensive and may seem a little overwhelming at first.

I recommend using the default interface and putting together a test game just to get a feel for AGS. Learn a bit about scripting, then move onto those GUI's.

good luck,
-junc