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Heya all, it's been a loooong time since I posted here, i'm surprised i remembered my login info.

Anyway just thought I'd pop in and say hi to those who remember me, if there is anyone left from the days of old.
I have had a link to AGS on my site for as long as I can remember so I hope even though I never made many games that I helped made people more aware of the place, cos it's is the best game making tool in the world.

Now i'm gonna run away into IRC and annopy some people in there..

cya - Necro

(also known since then as Neccy , Smokestorm, SmokestormX, and Steve)

I don't know if its just me, but do you think you could add a bit of code to the games listing on the website to sort by Release date and Rating (or link the recently added games page from them), in a ddition to alphabetially..  sometimes i wanna just try one of the new short games, without going into the forums and seeing whats games have been posted in there recently , but on the websites game page it starts with such games as 6 day assasin which is quite old (plus i played it already ;] ) and i dont know what the new ones listed there are..

I got to say I LOVE the picks of the month.

Exception 0xC0000005 at EIP=0x024EF348, AGSE v2.62.509

Occured when I was importing some sprites..  nothing else apart from i was zoomed in by 3x or something

Many of you may be aware of my site http://www.shadowreality.co.uk

Me and some of my friends can log into it , post some spam on the front page and have a place to store images to use on the net, it has its own image uploader and everything, unlimited space, so if you are interested in free image hosting place, and a place to rant and post some links reply to this thread or give me a pm and i will give you your own login credentials.

Haddas - see pm for details

Lo guys , its me , Neccy back onthe AGS scene , woo!

So, who do I have to kill or ask to get that link on the website changed to my new site?

http://www.shadowreality.co.uk

not that anyone will click that link but its good to know it could be changed.

Lo all who remember me , and howdy to those who dont.

I have started to do a few modifications to the AGS quotefile database site. so as I'm busy doing this any suggestions would be appriciated.

http://www33.brinkster.com/agsquotes/

-Neccy

A new quote DB has just been created similar to Bash.org for the #AGS irc channel...

http://www33.brinkster.com/agsquotes/

I am considering putting up a list of the most anticipated AGS games, including games that are in production so people can not only keep track of who is making what, but what also looks the most appealing.

Maybe get people to vote for the game they are most eagerly waiting, allowing people to submit links to thier new games and what not.

So I'd like a bit of feedback on what you think about this, whether you would like to see something like this, and what you would like it to offer... as many and as much detail as you care to share...

cheers

Neccy

Realistic cartoony smoke?? maybe i need to watch more roadrunner.

Hey all!

Many of you will know I have a game in progress yet have not posted here yet, I probably wont be online much over the next week or so, but the game development won't stop.

Remember to keep a watchfull eye on the game progress as it will be updated with many a screenshot. You can see the demo interface I am working with here although it has been greatly improved since that upload.

C&C posted here on anything would be cool, aswell as praise ^_^ and questions.

You can also leave messages on my guestbook on my site (index page).

At the end of the month a demo will hopefully be released to get your anticipation levels higher and to get an idea of what you can expect.


[update]

New forums and screenies

http://www.amazing-ebooks.co.uk/forum/index.php?board=1;action=display;threadid=6

Apparently VeryWeirdGuy has told me I spelt Weird wrong, so no comments on that
Maybe I should have him beta test for me

Ok ladies and gentleman, this time we are going to be drawing a gateway between worlds. to be more specific "A tear in the space time continumn allowing access between worlds".  Could be a portal , could be a magical wardrobe, could be anything!

GO!

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My GOD Rincewind, gimmie a chance to realise first before you come in here and post stuff like 30 secs after me!

320 x 200 Resolution
No Restriction on colours

GO!   Again!

I have 6 slots to display items , with arrows that scroll it left and right.

Is there anyway of getting the index of the item that you clicked on??

I know game.top_inv_item returns the index of the 1st slot but what I need is a way of returning the index of the seleceted item.

Importing ttf font are exellent , but I find myself wanting some font with outlines or shadows.

Would it be possible to import a font then have a box displaying whether you wanted it imported as normal or having AGS make an outlined version and shadowed version of it.

[*cough* RC2 *cough*]

Recently I made a bit 'o script to position a bit of text near your mouse cursor to tell you what you are mouse overing...

My first thought was to do a GUI with an @Overhotspot@ label... so off I went.

Also RobertEric came up with a similar script in size to do it the Text Overlay way.

Both ways worked, but the Text Overlay doesnt Overlay any GUI's on screen,
whereas if you used the GUI @Overhotspot@ way it would (that is if your GUI was a higher number than the ones you wanted to overlay).

Which way takes less resource out of a game? positioning a transparent GUI with a text label or a text overlay??

Will there be an option for text overlay to Overlay GUI's in the future??

P.S. (if anyone is interested in the code msg me)

I had a look around the site for a current bug list but could find one.. do you have one? In which case I don't know if you know this or not but I've been having a bug lately thats been driving me batty!

Everyonce in a while , normally when I add buttons to a GUI, a button will go missing off another GUI. Or at one point I had a button on ONE gui changing to whatever i set a button on another GUI to.

The only thing noticable was it always happened around Object 8.

If it happends again I will try and be more descriptive about it.

I have added a custom GUI totorial on my site, please go check it out...

http://www.amazing-ebooks.co.uk/ags/tutorials/tut5.html

I'd love to know what you think, where I could expand on it if needed to and what you think you'd also like to see there.

I'm not sure ive nailed this as good as I wanted... so would be real good if u lot could point out the bits to improve on... I know he looks all rigid and straight that will be sorted out later...

Hmm Looking at it now i think the hair and nose are a bit wierd.. tell me what u think

 

And the walk anim of the side cos I know u love it

Ok, i'm trying to get this walk anim down .. tell me what u think could be done to improve it...

    2X    
[2x now had new added 'bob' goodness!!]

Now before you go running off and saying, but his arms are not moving or whatever , im just interested in comments on his walk at the moment, but any suggestions on what to add to it later would be welcome

OK heres a 300x200 , 256 colour background , Hi-res pallette



and here it is in game



Now why have the colours decided to do that??


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"OK heres a 300x200 , 256 colour background , Hi-res pallette"

I mean Hi-colour pallette in game instead of Hi-res pallette

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A new background to gawk at...




Please ignore the bit above the top black line.. not cleaned up.
What do people think about this? Do you prefer Black outlined rooms or prefer the dark colour outline (like on my charachter).

I was just trying to get a feel for Anti-aliased backgrounds, any pointers to look out for n stuff also welcome...