Dialogues

[Daniele82]

Do you know why the dialogues move downwards after saving or loading? 

If I play without saving the dialogues are perfect. 

[Crimson Wizard]

Please elaborate, are you refering to working in the Editor, or running the game? By "dialogues" do you mean dialog topics, GUI, speech lines, something else? Please describe what exactly is happening (maybe post some screenshots).

[Daniele82]

The dialogues of the characters. (I also use the characters for some scripts for the cut scenes.)
When the character is at x = 0 and y = 0 the sentence that is displayed drops slightly downwards. (only after saving or loading)

[Crimson Wizard]

When the character is at x = 0 and y = 0 the sentence that is displayed drops slightly downwards. (only after saving or loading)

Do you mean that right after you click "save" button the speech begins to display lower than usual?

Which speech style do you use in your game (Lucase Arts, Sierra, other)?

Can you perhaps post a screenshot from your game to make it easier to understand the problem?

[Daniele82]

When the character is at x = 0 and y = 0 the sentence that is displayed drops slightly downwards. (only after saving or loading)

Do you mean that right after you click "save" button the speech begins to display lower than usual?

Which speech style do you use in your game (Lucase Arts, Sierra, other)?

Can you perhaps post a screenshot from your game to make it easier to understand the problem?

Yes, right.
At the moment I don't have time to create previews.
can you understand the problem?

[Crimson Wizard]

can you understand the problem?

No, not really. Saving itself should not have any impact on how speech is displayed. This may probably have something to do with the game GUI.

Also, speech may behave differently depending on how it's done (is it one of the default styles, or custom style coded in script).

[Daniele82]

can you understand the problem?

No, not really. Saving itself should not have any impact on how speech is displayed. This may probably have something to do with the game GUI.

Also, speech may behave differently depending on how it's done (is it one of the default styles, or custom style coded in script).

The base of the game is default but the Gui have been customized.... but the characters have nothing to do with Gui at least I think.

[Crimson Wizard]

Could you at least tell what speech style are you using?

[Khris]

Afaik, visible GUIs near the top of the screen move speech down.

There was a similar issue with the black bar that the Maniac Mansion Mania games have at the top of the screen; it wasn't part of the backgrounds but an actual black GUI, and the engine would move LucasArts style speech text near the top of the screen down so it wouldn't appear on top of the GUI. IIRC only speech near the top of the screen is affected; this might be some hard-coded behavior put in due to the Sierra icon bar.

The GUI is called gBorder in the MMM templates, so if you're using those, check your code for that GUI being turned on / not being turned off.

[Daniele82]

Afaik, visible GUIs near the top of the screen move speech down.

There was a similar issue with the black bar that the Maniac Mansion Mania games have at the top of the screen; it wasn't part of the backgrounds but an actual black GUI, and the engine would move LucasArts style speech text near the top of the screen down so it wouldn't appear on top of the GUI. IIRC only speech near the top of the screen is affected; this might be some hard-coded behavior put in due to the Sierra icon bar.

The GUI is called gBorder in the MMM templates, so if you're using those, check your code for that GUI being turned on / not being turned off.

I checked I don't have any GUI with that name. 

[Daniele82]

Before you have saved or loaded the game...



After saving or loading the game...

( only when the character is at x = 0 and y = 0 )

Problem solved.
Actually they were GUIs not created by me that were activated by clicking F5 F7 and F9

[Crimson Wizard]

Well, this is kind of weird.

How do you save the game exactly, do you have to open some menu, or this also happens if you use a key shortcut?

( only when the character is at x = 0 and y = 0 )

Maybe a dumb question, but does this mean your character is placed offscreen for some reason? 0,0 is top-left corner, and characters are drawn above their coordinates.

[Daniele82]

Well, this is kind of weird.

How do you save the game exactly, do you have to open some menu, or this also happens if you use a key shortcut?

( only when the character is at x = 0 and y = 0 )

Maybe a dumb question, but does this mean your character is placed offscreen for some reason? 0,0 is top-left corner, and characters are drawn above their coordinates.

Because I use invisible characters for the cutscenes.

[Khris]

Yeah, maybe next time check before rolling your eyes at me.

Also, if CW (who is investigating stuff like this on a daily basis and has put tons and tons of work into AGS) is asking for clarification, why would you post the exact same comment again?

[Daniele82]

Yeah, maybe next time check before rolling your eyes at me.

Also, if CW (who is investigating stuff like this on a daily basis and has put tons and tons of work into AGS) is asking for clarification, why would you post the exact same comment again?

Keep calm, Because I was wrong to paste the message. 

I use google translate to write.
I'm italian.