Benethe a Steel Sky GUI

[BuRRe]

I have just finished a really great Benethe a Steel Sky (BaSS) GUI that I use for my upcoming game Vreten Zero, and I couldn't find any good place to post it, so I posted it here =)

This GUI does have:
* Popup inventory at the top of the screen, for maximum use of background instead of GUI.
* Text that show what item it is that follow the cursor, instead of DotT and Indy-style, where it's a static box.
* Two-button (mouse buttons) interface! Easy to learn, easy to use.
* Changable graphics for goto-room areas/objects (arrow pointing up, down, left or right. more added easily)
* Added support to scroll your inventory with WHEEL, but as said in the tip when you check that box, it is not vital to completing the game
* Old-style 320x2?0 cursors (although easily changed to high-res)

Probably don't have:
* Perfect optimized scripting, but hey, it works 8)

Definitly don't have:
* Lensflares

If anyone are looking for that kind of thing, just PM me, or say anything is this thread! (and if anyone knows where to post a GUI like this, tell me!)

[jannar85]

Well, post in the technical forum.
If the template is below 1 MB I guess you can upload it at http://www.2dadventure.com/ags/upload/upload.html

then I can mirror it @ AD.

[BuRRe]

I liked it now, http://www.2dadventure.com/ags/BaSS_template_1.0_by_BuRRe.zip so you all can abuse it  

read the included .txt so you know what to do.

[prowler]

dude i love the gui; bass is my fav gui, too.

btw for version 1.1 you could try spelling "beneath" correctly

[Inkoddi]

Yes, and make it compatible with 640×480 and 320×240 resolution.

[BuRRe]

prowler: thnx! hehe ok, i'll try well, besides that, have you found any reason to make a 1.1?

Inkoddi: well, I have made it in 640x480.. it is not compatible with that? really strange.. specially since the only specified thing are the width, and it is compatible with 640x* and 320x*.. the only thing not compatible are 800x600, or at least the only thing not tested.. please PM me if you think different

note: it is made in AGS 2.6, and if you are using another version that might be the problem?

[Inkoddi]

ok... make a game at 640×480 resolution and move the cursor to the bottom of the screen...
voila! the game crashes!

[BuRRe]

Inkoddi: Oh! Sorry, I had made a bad thing.. it only crashed with a room with "wrong" height, meening lower than 240.. noted that and thanked you for it

So, new link if you wanna be able to use it with all rooms:
http://www.2dadventure.com/ags/BaSS_template_1.1_by_BuRRe.zip

[Rui 'Trovatore' Pires]

I'll add it to my page, at www.freewebs.com/skimbleshanks.

[BuRRe]

redruM: Wohoo! I'm once again on the web with one of my creations  
Yep, the spelling is correct! Thanks a lot, can you tell me if lots of people download it then?  

[Rui 'Trovatore' Pires]

<laugh> I have no way of knowing. My web knowledge is only good enough to make do. But considering the hits I've been getting (thanks folks!), I think lot'sa people will see it.

[BuRRe]

Good! Well, hopefully the people that use my GUI will read the readme, and tell me they are using my GUI.. hopefully.. on the other hand, I didn't release this because I wanted any money or anything, but only because there were no BaSS GUI out here hehe.. now I just wanna get home again and continue working on my game!

If I have time I might even add the "correct" options-screen to the GUI, who knows.. (I'm not using that options-screen in my game, so it would be extra work.. although it would be kinda nice to have one that is working correctly!)

[Inkoddi]

Can you make so that when you hold the left mouse button down over an inventory item it displays the description of that item below, and when you right-click on it that item is selected and the game pauses until you use it? (how it originally was in BaSS) It would be nice

[Duck]

Hey, looks good. I think I'll use it.

[BuRRe]

Duck: great! hope you like it!

Inkoddi: Yeah, THAT is how it's supposed to be hehe.. I'll get right on it when I get home, I really wanna have the whole BaSS-feeling, and now that you point it out I know that is what was missing! Check back later for v1.2, with options-screen and correct inventory-use then hehe

[Archangel (aka SoupDragon)]

Wow, very nice work I'll be using this in my upcoming game Building 66 (more info on this later) with a couple of alterations to the colour scheme and a simple load-save-quit dialog. Thanks for releasing this!

[jannar85]

I'll add it to my page, at www.freewebs.com/skimbleshanks.

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[Proskrito]

great interface!   but there is one thing i think you could change: its about the exit arrows. The first letter that tells your system that the object/hotspot is an exit, is the 'e' character, is very usual imo. (i think i read its the most used character in english or in spanish, i dont know), so there might be some problems with it, as many words can start with er, eu, ed or el , and there could be reasons to dont want to write it in uppercase. Maybe if you changed it to something like <,$,#, or so it would avoid those problems.
Just an opinion, though.  

btw, if you want bass-like save/load interfaces, they are much like the lucasarts ones, i could give you the code if you want (or you could get it from the templates here), so you can spend that time in other things  

[Duck]

One thing I'd change is the save/load/quit dealie. As it is, I have to program it so that you need to do the keyboard combination every time I want to save. It would be nice to have a menu for this somewhere.

Other than that minor issue, great job.

[Dan2552]

bass is a great game... i wish for revolution to make a sequal. maybe someone should ask them if they can make BASS2 officially with AGS?

i will defiantly download the gui




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