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I'm updating from a previous version, since I've updated to AGS 3.3 in the last year.  But when I download the module, I'm not seeing the .scm file I need to install/import the module.  Is there a new method to do this?

I think the sound of my face-palm just set off the tsunami sirens in Micronesia.   It now works perfectly: one thousand thanks Mr. Wizard!

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Well a southwards trip refers almost certainly to The Journey Down, developed by Theo (which minus a round letter gives us The).  So The Ten Letter Thing.  A famous maid in miniature....  IN miniature?  But miniature only has 9 letters....  How old do you have to be to still qualify as a "maid", anyway?  Or is it a cleaning maid?  Not... Amelia Bedilia?!?  Other famous maids....  Was Mrs. Doubtfire a maid or a governess?  And what would make the maid miniature?  Maybe it's one of those little Roomba robot vacuum units?  Hmmmmm....  Amy Winehouse?  A small house would be a cottage, or a cabin.  Or a shed.  Or a hut.  My guess is The Wineshanty.

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Aha!  The missing piece of the puzzle!

Except now my object just disappears, so I'm somehow literally drawing a blank now.

Code: ags

// room script file

DynamicSprite* BurgerOne;

function room_Load(){
  BurgerOne = DynamicSprite.Create(120, 100, true);
  DrawingSurface *BurgOneSurface = BurgerOne.GetDrawingSurface();
  BurgOneSurface.DrawImage (oBurger1.X, oBurger1.Y, 292);
  BurgOneSurface.Release ();
  oBurger1.Graphic = BurgerOne.Graphic;

}

I get the same results if I pass absolute coordinates on line 8, and if I declare the drawing surface at the top of the script instead of inside the function.  When I comment out line 10 the burger object still appears where it was placed in the room, so somehow I'm creating a blank dynamic sprite (but sprite slot 292 for sure has a graphic in it).  So.... somehow it is deleting itself without that being called (but I would have thought that declaring both the pointers outside the function would have solved that), or somehow transparency has been activated, or somehow the drawing is happening off the screen.  I'm guessing it's something to do with the first scenario, but I can't think why it would be deleting itself. 

Thanks guys.

@Nanuaraq: I initially thought I could pull this off with stacking objects, but the idea doesn't scale very well.

@Crimson Wizard: I'm missing the bit in the manual where it says you need to assign the dynamic sprite to an object, etc.  But declaring the dynamic sprite outside of the function is a good idea!   How do I assign a dynamic sprite to an object?

I've read through Nanuaraq's link, but I'm still not seeing where Khris assigns the dynamic sprite to anything (in his case it seems to be the main character, in mine it will be an object).  Is that what all those ViewFrame pointers are for?  The manual seems to indicate that those are just pointing at sprites assigned to various frames in view loops. Could someone please direct me to the manual section where it explains assigning dynamic sprites to objects?  Thanks.

Correct!  And now I'm afraid I will have to force you to come up with a new one, unless some generous soul steps in and saves you the effort.

I've got a sprite that I want to build in layers like a sandwich.  So I figured I'd try something called "Dynamic Sprites" that I read about in the manual.  As far as I could figure, if you want to draw on a sprite (which is necessary, because I want the sandwich to move), you have to first create a dynamic sprite, then create a drawing surface for it, then draw something on the surface, and then release.  So I pieced me together a bit of code like so:

Code: ags

DynamicSprite* BurgerOne = DynamicSprite.Create(120, 100, true); 
DrawingSurface *BurgOneSurface = BurgerOne.GetDrawingSurface();
BurgOneSurface.DrawImage (100, 100, 292);  //sprite slot 292 is a slice of tomato
BurgOneSurface.Release ();

...and I got nothing.  Anyone see where I went wrong?  What I'm interested in doing is repeating line 3 over and over again to build up the sandwich, and then call release.  Is this even possible?

What, no puzzle today?  You force me to do this:

Dancing Eric Clapton, load forfeiture crackerjack (11, 5, 4, 6)

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AGS related.

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I'm only slightly disappointed that you didn't choose to write about the sovereign sea platform (although you'd have a hard time writing fiction weirder than that.... ).  However, I'm the opposite of disappointed (appointed? ) that we finally have an entry!   Just one more week left: now's the time to write truth about power and give kconan some competition.

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I'm thinking The Guitarist refers to Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page, just because page would make a good ending for a clue.  There's also an outside chance it might be B.B. King, but that's harder to work into an answer.  Surpassing is where I start to lose it....  Cap?  Top?  That's all I got.... Somebody stand on the shoulders of this giant and take us the rest of the way.

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Aha!  Finally a nibble!   C'mon, who's with him?

Our deadlines can be flexible for enthusiastic young scribes such as yourself.

And...

All lengths and styles of story are acceptable, from anecdotes to annals, and biographies to ballads.  Have fun!  Entertain us!  Write!

I trust some sort of Haiku isn't beyond your capabilities over the next eight days -that's less than two words per day.  You do one at breakfast and one and bedtime and BOOM!  It's done before you know it.

Maybe the one nostril dude is KING of the nose-less.   Maybe you should write about his story!

I think I got it....

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General Discussion

promoting a major = general

confabulation = informal discussion (although usually it's some sort of memory fabrication....)

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Just in case I was successful:

Bristly tangle set on mirror (7,5)

hint: AGS related

Correct!

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Aspects muddled = spacest
spanish question = que
about = space que st
extensive = spacious
spacious lampoonery = I was trying to come up with a not so obvious secondary clue for space quest....

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Good solving guys!

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Merry Christmas:

Muddled aspects about the Spanish question make extensive lampoonery (5,5)



edit: Adventure related

edit edit: reordered clue to read more clearly.

In the kingdom of the nose-less, the man with one nostril must suffer. ~Sun Tzu

[razzmatazz droop]

I dunno...

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Apple wizard makes me think of Isaac Newton, or William Tell, or Steve Jobs, or Steve Wozniak, or that weird wire-framed rolly-majiggy from the shopping channel that harvests ground-fall fruit.   So yeah, no progress here.

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Wired from behind makes me think of "plugged in", but I can't come up with a synonym that makes any sense.

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Since "earth" is not capitalized, this makes me think of lying or dropping or falling, or maybe gardening.... I don't know.   

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Based on my confusion above and a wild stab at the word-count, I conclude that the clue refers to razzmatazz droop

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[MY DOG SOILED A CLUB BUT HES NOT THE ALPHA (8,3)]

MY DOG SOILED A CLUB BUT HES NOT THE ALPHA (8,3)

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I'm guessing that "not the alpha" means not the first title in the series.  Based on word count and a very fuzzy notion of where the 1980s ended, I'm going to guess Gobliins III

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[critic's lounge]

Some thoughts....
 

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I can't think of an "article" in king, but if you read it as article "inking" then it could refer to a writer or journalist of some kind. 

"Alien stopping ass-type" has me stumped though.  The obvious alien stopper is Ripley, played by Sigourney Weaver.  I was thinking that she might run some sort of donkey sanctuary and have a favourite type, but she appears to be a city-girl through and through.

So.... based on raw word-count and vague reference to someone who write's articles, I'm going to guess critic's lounge.

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