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Hm. I've been here for a bit over two years, and I don't feel much of a difference. There aren't many threads-made-of-awesome going on right now (apart from the 'stache challenge, of course), but I haven't noticed voids of any kind either.

From what I understand, you want to have a character that is completly invisible (but still interactable) until the player uses an inventory item on him... right? Simple enough. Just put this in game_start or somewhere appropiate:

Code: ags

cGigglesticks.Transparency=100; //replace cGigglesticks with the right name

and something like this in the character's "player uses inventory item on character" interaction:

Code: ags

if (player.ActiveInventory==iWagglestaff) {
cGigglesticks.Transparency=0;
cGigglesticks.Say("I arse teh visible!!1");}

Well, you get the idea.

We DO have "most innovative", but it's just chosen by a mysterious "jury" of some kind, not by public vote, and it doesn't show up in the database.

I'm talking from experience here. 

Turned out, it was PSU. I exchanged it for a similar model some minutes ago, and everything is working like a charm again. 

This just screams for a Thog Infinitron fan game. 

With the right style, you can indeed take a lot of liberties with vanishing points and stuff. Take a look at Alien Hominid, for example:



The artist obviously didn't give two shits about realism, and yet, it works pretty well. But I'd advise you to try drawing "proper" backgrounds first - drawing with vanishing points in mind doesn't hurt (that much), it's good practice, and if you keep a simplistic style otherwise, it won't even hurt your speed too much. I'm talking from experience here. 

As I said, there's absolutely no indication that anything whatsoever happens when I press the power button. No fan starting, no booting noises, no flashing LCDs, no beeping, just... absolutely nothing.

About the CMOS reset... well, I have tried taking out that battery (the one that powers the BIOS, I think), but I haven't tried locating a reset switch yet. That's up next, though - thanks for the advice. I hope it works, since this stupid barebone doesn't seem to use a standard-sized PSU (although I might be wrong here, I suck at hardware issues) and I don't want to go through the pain of replacing the mainboard. Wish me luck...

Oh, and I don't mind the jokes... especially because I keep my porn firmly located on the Interwebs. 

You need help. Both of you.

Apart from that, nice stuff. 

Tried to sort perspective issues out too.
What do you mean? I don´t understand this...

I believe he's talking about vanishing points. Theoretically, all lines in your image should cross in a single point, when lengthened(sp), as shown here, for example (google image search = your friend). And now look at this:



As you can see, it's a total mess - and I didn't even bother with checking all the lines. They basically don't cross at all, making the room look pretty weird and decidedly unnatural. And not a cartoon-style weird and unnatural either. Especially the desk seems to be quite out of the bounds of space and time.

Alright, thanks for the condolences and the advice. I'll try to get a fitting PSU as fast as I can (I think my grandparents have a few to spare) and see if that helps... let's hope it's not the mainboard. Again, thanks for the help - I wouldn't have known what to do. 

Some five or six hours ago, my PC just... stopped working. It just froze and nothing happened anymore, so I pressed the 'Reset' button. It shut down just fine, but nothing happened afterwards - the cooling fan ran, but the screen just stayed black. So I shut the whole thing down entirely, waited five seconds, then turned it on again... nothing. The fan ran, but that was it. So I turned it off again, fetched a boot disc and turned the PC on again, only to find that it shut itself off again after two seconds. So I unplugged it, waited a few hours, and guess what? Now it's not even starting up anymore. Not even the cooling fan starts to rotate or something. It's just that... NOTHING happens, at all. I checked all the plugs, screwed the whole thing open and everything seems to be in perfect working order. It's no power outage either - everything else here works just fine (including the obsolete notebook I'm using right now).

I'm at a total loss here. Any ideas what this could be, or even how to fix it?   

1.) I believe this should be fixed by setting the mouse mode back to eModeInteract in the item's interaction script.

2.) Sure. All you'll need is the right script in the unhandled_event section in the global script. The manual knows the values you need to check for.

3.) You're on the right track there... all you'll need to do is put that script (with values and y-check filled in) in repeatedly_execute_always, and it will work like a charm.

No, you're absolutely right. I was being a grammar nazi. Hence the

Didn't you read the thread title, people? He's trying to make an "online-free game", and that's very possible with AGS. 

I'm always astonished by the "meh"-like comments Radiant's font editor seems to be receiving (unless that's just selective perception kickin' in). It takes a little getting used to, but it's a good way to make custom fonts, and certainly awesome for a homebrew tool like that. If you're really having trouble finding the right font, a font editor might be just the way to go.

Unless you're not sure what exactly you're aiming at anyway. 

So forcing medication to have a reasonable maximum price (which appearantly is always at least 4000% of what it would be in a deregulated environment) always results in a 1984-esque facist state? Wow, I didn't know that. :

But let's discuss that elsewhere, this game is too awesome for us to allow its thread to turn into a political flamefest.

Have you inserted a return in the dialog's startup section?

Open the AGS manual, then search for SetGameSpeed.

Not much need for a workaround, it's all there (more or less). 

- PlaySound(-1) will stop all sound files currently playing. If you want a less "brute" method, you could also force the background speech to only use channel 7 (for example) by replacing PlaySound(whatever) with PlaySoundEx(whatever,7) and inserting a StopChannel(7) at the appropiate location.

- You should be able remove background speech with a simple cInsertName.SayBackground("").

Have you tried to increase the maximum memory usage via the winsetup.exe? That might solve the problem with the music.