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hi, i'm attempting to make an interactive for a museum.  it needs to display a background image and play videos when certain keys are pressed.  so you press 1 and it plays video 1 etc.  while i've found on_key_press and PlayVideo in the wiki i'm none the wiser how to put them together.  if anybody who actually knows what they're doing could give me an example script i could adapt that would save me a lot of head scratching.

i normally stick to the video production but offered to help with the interactive for free as they didn't have the money (£1000s) to hire one of the companies that normally makes these things.  having played with AGS years ago i knew it was capable, just thought the how would be a little simpler.

anyway, posting here is a last resort after a lot of head scratching so any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Story:]

STOP! GObot proudly present:

Daphne (lol)

Story:

In an alternate reality the year is 1930, mankind's crowning achievement was the building of five great computers.  One in north america, one in england, russia, china and japan.  mankind's crowning achievement because it was the last he made on his own.  The great machines became self aware, new life.  From then on they helped man make the world a nicer place to live.  The machines are arrogant, although not evil.  They look upon man like a child that must be looked after.  Due to the size of components (transistors and the like) much of the world still works on pen and paper, if there is a problem you need one of the great machines to solve you must ask it.  As was how Dr. Hans Zimmer came to be in charge of the mission to land a huge nuclear powered spaceship on the planet mars.  As a reporter you've been sent to New York to interview him.  There have been strange rumours flying around about dreams the computers have been having but on the subject they will say nothing.

Screenshots:





Development Progress:

Story: 20% (an outline that needs fleshing out)
Scripting: 0.01%
Graphics: 0.15
Sound/Music: 0.1%

Expected completion date: March 2385

Development Diary:

February 14th 2008, Valentines day, oh how my lonely heart aches...erm, been working on graphics and starting to learn the scripting language.  i <3 notepad.

Help Wanted:

Need a sprite artist.  i intend to use hand drawn sprites for this one so if you think you can do a decent female lead sprite let me know.  also could do with some sort of scripting guru i can turn to when i'm stuck.

Demo:

Just a couple of rooms with some minimal interaction, here mainly to get people interested in working with me.  NB; this isn't the same thing i posted in the critics lounge.

http://rapidshare.com/files/91884454/Compiled.zip

okay, so i've found the font i want to use and it looks great, but, theres a horrible white box around everything that is said.  how do i get rid of it?  and how do i cahnge the colour of my characters (and other characters) speach?

i'm useing the 'Display' command to make him talk but the words are centerd on the screen.  is there another command to make my character talk??

cheers!

it's a scrolling background rendered for a 320x200 game i'm working on.  what do you recon?



also, i've had a go at rendering a sprite in 3d studio and its a LOT of work.  do you think cell based sprites could work with a background in this style?