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Added couple of more functions:

Code: ags

/// Returns the moving path of this character, or null if it's not moving
Point*[] Character.GetPath();
/// Returns the moving path of this object, or null if it's not moving
Point*[] Object.GetPath();

These return the copies of the current path. If moving order changes, the previously returned array becomes obsolete (not automatically updated, of course).

 I have a thought about adding something that returns a more sophisticated object, which describes not only the current path, but also speeds and current position on this path, but perhaps I should do this as a separate task.

Updated download for a test (based on AGS 4):
https://cirrus-ci.com/task/5429664145997824

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Another update, as of 13th June:
https://cirrus-ci.com/task/5488189920509952

I think this is the last update, unless mistakes are found.
There's a list of known issues, they are not critical, and I decided to postpone addressing these:
https://github.com/adventuregamestudio/ags/pull/2430#issuecomment-2166800056

...because I simply got tired of working on this feature.

As of now, I know only of 2 people who tested or at least mentioned they are going to test.

Please also tell if you're using default dialog options or have custom options rendering.

Another updated version, now with some improvements and fixes.

* variables list now may be edited by pressing F2, and there's always one empty line added in the end.
* better error reporting (bad syntax, unknown names etc).
* correct reading of member fields of builtin structs, such as GameState ("game").

Download:
https://cirrus-ci.com/task/4728318132486144
updated 12th June 2024

A while ago I've been helping to script a big game project, and they had a very well made "story teleport" system.
This system would configure whole game depending on a group of "story progress" variables.
The most interesting part was that this system applied changes step-by-step, simulating player's walking through the game.

For example, if user requested a teleport to "chapter 10", this system would apply:
- all changes for chapter 1
- all changes for chapter 2
- all changes for chapter 3
- etc
until chapter 10 is reached.

This made it much easier to update even with very high chapter numbers.

Also, each room had a setup code in "room load" event, where the whole room was reconfigured, depending on these "story progress" variables. This happened during normal gameplay too. So it did not make a difference whether you entered a room by normally walking there, or teleporting using a debugging gui.

You simply have a wrong syntax, you should use the same syntax as you did with your objects example:

Code: ags

if (cEGO.InventoryQuantity[iGUN.ID]==1 && cJOE.InventoryQuantity[iAXE.ID]==1){

On another hand, if you really need two separate "ifs", then you should make a nested structure, without any "&&" in between:

Code: ags

if (cEGO.InventoryQuantity[iGUN.ID]==1){
     if (cJOE.InventoryQuantity[iAXE.ID]==1){
          // do something here
     }
}

Alright, I understand now, so when you change to English language, some texts are not yet translated and still display in French, and they were displayed wrong.

It sounds like you are either using ANSI text mode, or a font that does not have all the necessary letters for all languages. If you were using Unicode text mode, and a more universal font, then you would not need to fix anything at all (I suppose).

Thanks but I tried that and I got the same "unexpected IGList" error.

Are you doing this outside of functions by a chance? AGS only allows to assign at variable declaration for trivial types, such as int and float.
Assigning struct members and objects are commands, and must be inside some function. If this is a one time initialization, then usually inside "game_start".

Unfortunately, AGS script does not support this classic syntax of array initialization.

So, instead you would have to do it hard way, like:

Code: ags

IGList[0].name = "Elf";
IGList[0].desc= "Elves are known for their long beards and fondness for mining.";
// etc

Regarding better alternatives for storage, AGS script supports a Dictionary type that seems to be matching your purpose:
https://adventuregamestudio.github.io/ags-manual/Dictionary.html


Also, an alternate way to initialization could be having these texts in a separate text file and read back using File script API. Optionally, such file could be also packed inside game package, with the use of a option in General Settings called "Package custom data folder(s)":
https://adventuregamestudio.github.io/ags-manual/GeneralSettings.html#compiler
https://adventuregamestudio.github.io/ags-manual/File.html

Reading from a file has its pros and cons, but I think the advantage here is that you may script a simpler entry initialization in a loop, instead of writing many lines of "[N].name = "abcdefg"; in script", and a separate text file may be modified without recompiling a script.
For example, you may have a file directly put into a game folder for the time of developing a game, and told to be packed inside later when you distribute it.

3.6.1 Patch 3 is released:
https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/forums/ags-engine-editor-releases/ags-3-6-1-patch-3/

[Download AGS 3.6.1 Patch 3 installer]

AGS 3.6.1 - Patch 3

Full release number: 3.6.1.25

Download AGS 3.6.1 Patch 3 installer

Download AGS 3.6.1 Patch 3 as a .zip archive

For Editor

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VC 2015 redistributable needed for AGS Editor on Windows

Download Color Themes for the Editor

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For Android

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AGS Player, suitable for running any compatible AGS game

NOTE: the Editor now includes Android build component letting you prepare your own games for Android

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For Engine/Editor developers

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AGS source code central repository

Debug symbols database (for analysing crash dumps)

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Released: 9th June 2024

Previous stable version: AGS 3.6.0 P11 forum thread


This release is brought to you by:

- Alan v.Drake (fixes, improvements)
- Crimson Wizard
- edmundito (iOS fixes)
- eri0o
- Walter Agazzi (fixes)



Summary

3.6.1 update focuses mainly on improving performance and usability of existing features, in both Editor and Engine.

The noteable addition to the Editor is a "Log Panel", which lets you read game logs right in the editor's window. "Goto definition" now works on game object script names and opens their respective panels. Room editor features better panning and zoom controls. Views allow to select and modify multiple frames at once.

In the engine, there's a significant improvement to script performance, which may make script-heavy games run 30-40% faster compared to AGS 3.6.0 (these were real test results on a certain game with 3D simulation). There's a big improvement to the speed of manipulating Overlays, and general speed improvement of graphics rendering primarily useful for high resolution games.

There are other fixes and improvements to various parts of the program too.
Please be sure to read "Upgrading to AGS 3.6.1" topic in the manual: https://adventuregamestudio.github.io/ags-manual/UpgradeTo361.html



Changes in the Patch 3:

Editor:
 - Fixed that after deleting a View's frame editor did not select next frame (regression in 3.6.1).
 - Fixed "Delete last loop" button not appearing in the View Editor if the view is filled using "Assign sprites to view" command from the Sprite Manager.

Engine:
 - Implemented an alternate solution for rendering "bad" TTF fonts that does not increase their loading times (after previous patch 2).
 - Allow scene render during "load room" event if the last room transition was "Instant".
   This has to be done because number of games used this event for custom transitions.
 - For games compiled in "Debug" mode "warnings.log" file will be written in "savegame dir" on platforms where modifying game directory is forbidden in principle (OSX, iOS, Android, Web).
 - Fixed System.Log() was registered for plugins using a wrong argument list.

Compatibility:
 - Fixed loading of 3.5.0 saves (broken in 3.6.1).

Windows:
 - Fixed disk space check was testing space in the current directory instead of the save game location.


Changes in the Patch 2:

Editor:
 - Fixed few potential program errors for "Generate Keystore" in Android preferences.
 - Fixed external processes (such as test game runs) were started using ShellExecute, which could theoretically lead to unintended results.

Engine:
 - Fixed String.Replace crashing the engine if the resulting string exceeds 3000 bytes.
 - Fixed releasing a mouse button could cause double "on_event" call (with eEventGUIMouseUp).
 - Improved rendering of TTF fonts which have glyph sizes surpassing declared font's height.
   This fixes the look of text on gui controls, and automatic outlining on these fonts.
 - Fixed a dialog shown with InputBox() function drawing typed text beyond text box'es border.
 - Fixed custom dialog options in the "old mode" not triggering redraw when the active option changes.


Changes in the Patch 1:

Editor:
- Fixed View's frame preview sometimes drawn incorrectly, in case of certain panel sizes.
- Fixed folding in the script editor not working correctly if there's a commented closing bracket ("//}") inside this code section.
- Fixed Editor sometimes failing to update game exe's file information and/or icons, if user was importing any sprites during this working session.

Engine:
- Fixed room objects not updating under Direct3D/OpenGL renderer, if they were assigned a dynamic sprite, then that sprite was deleted, and a new one assigned with coincidentally same ID.
- Fixed room objects not updating under Software renderer, if they were assigned a dynamic sprite, and that sprite was modified while object was not visible on screen.
- Fixed inventory cursor's crosshair not displayed (when enabled in game settings).



What is new in 3.6.1

Common features:
- Implemented Deflate compression option for sprites.
- Removed length limits for: Game name, savegame folder, Character's script name and regular name (description), Inventory item's name (description), Mouse cursor's script name, Audioclip's script name.

Editor:
- Discontinued Source control integration functionality, removed "Put sound and sprite files in source control" option from General Settings.
- In General Settings moved few properties to different groups for better consistency.
- Added "Scale Character sprite offsets" property to General Settings. This property refers to scaling of Character.z and sprite offsets added by LockViewOffset script command.
- Added TextureCacheSize and SoundCacheSize properties to Default Setup. These let configure the sizes of runtime texture and sound cache sizes respectively.
- Added "Leave room after fade-out" event to Rooms (called "Unload" by default).
- Added Translated property to all GUI Controls (was available only in ListBox). Translated property tells whether this control's text has to be translated, and applied text direction (in right-to-left text mode).
- Support '\n' linebreak character in the Label's Text and potentially other text properties.
- Improved Room Editor controls:
  Added free panning mode done by holding the middle mouse button, or alternatively - by holding Space + LMB.
  Mouse Wheel without key modifiers scrolls the room vertically; Shift + Mouse Wheel scrolls the room horizontally.
  Zoom is done by Ctrl + Mouse Wheel and room now zooms towards or outwards the cursor position.
- In Room Editor the context menu is now displayed by RMB or Shift + RMB while editing masks.
  The individual room mode menu is merged with the "copy coordinates" command when shown.
- In Room Editor the hint with coordinates is now also displayed when moving Objects or Characters with keyboard.
- In Dialog Script editor support most Edit menu and context menu commands from the regular Script editor, with a few exceptions.
- In Sprite Manager added command "View" -> "Show filenames" which toggles display of a sprite's source filename under the sprites.
- Adjust sprites' import settings after "Crop sprite edges" command; this would ensure that these sprites are restored from source file keeping their cropped sizes.
- During sprite export Editor will display a proper progress dialog.
- Zoom controls in Character and View panes now allow downscaling too. View editor displays the preview sprite stretched to fill the parent panel.
- View editor now allows to select multiple frames at once, across multiple loops too, using standard Shift + LMB and Ctrl + LMB combinations. Properties panel lets modify properties for all the selected frames at once.
- Added "Replace with all sprites from folder" command to the View editor's context menu.
- For Audio Clips in the project tree added "Force Reimport", "Force reimport all file(s)" and "Replace Source File" context menu commands.
- For Output Panel added "Copy selection" context menu command.
- Implemented Log Panel that lets you see the engine and game logs right in the Editor.
- Improved LipSync panel looks in case user's system has display scaling option enabled.
- "Goto Definition" command in script will now work for most of the game entities too, such as Characters, GUIs, and so forth. In that case it will find a game's entity and open a respective editor panel for it. This still does not work for some types, such as Room objects, and Views.
- Added main menu commands for opening a Project folder and Compiled folder.
- Added "Export Global Messages to script" menu command. This command is meant for upgraded pre-3.2 game projects, and will generate a script with a String array, moving global messages texts there.
- For script's tabs added a context menu command for opening this script's location.
- When run with "/compile" argument Editor will print all messages to the console (stdout), instead of displaying modal message windows.
- For Android build target Editor now supports a directory to place plugins in.
- When building a game for Android and Linux the Editor will now be more tolerant to missing plugins and only issue a warning instead of stopping with error.
- Config will now be saved in UTF-8, letting to support setup program's title text in unicode.
- For non-Windows build targets Editor will fix config containing Direct3D graphics driver option and set OpenGL instead.
- For Color Themes: implemented character literal, braces match and braces error settings.
- Made Editor be somewhat more tolerate to missing XML nodes in Game.agf, in many cases it will still let open a game.
- When upgrading older game projects, Editor will insert a call to SetRestartPoint() in the end of the 'game_start' function in GlobalScript.asc. This is done to complement removal of an automatic restart point in the engine. This inserted command is safe to remove.
- When upgrading pre-3.2 rooms with disabled SaveLoadEnabled property the Editor will reset this property and insert a comment with a warning into the corresponding room's script. This is done because this property is deprecated as is no longer accessible.
- Fixed Editor refusing to open a game if one of the translation files is missing.
- Fixed General Settings and Default Setup not working correctly right after importing a pre-3.* game project.
- Fixed importing GIFs or 8-bit PNGs may lose transparent pixels if source images used other palette index than 0 for transparency.
- Fixed Project Explorer's folders collapsing after certain user actions, such as dragging items or renaming things.
- Fixed deleting collapsed "region" in script would sometimes lead to portion of the script undeleted but staying invisible.
- (Possibly) Fixed a "Index out of range" exception in Script editor, related to the "script location" drop-down list, which could occur at random circumstances while
  working with the script, and any Color Theme is enabled.
- Fixed Editor could miss some of the files when cleaning up old compiled files after the Game's Filename property is changed.

Scripting:
- Support "#else" preprocessor directive.

Script API:
- Implemented Room's "After fade-out" event.
- Added eEventLeaveRoomAfterFadeout event for the global "on_event".
- Added eEventGameSaved event which runs after game was saved.
- Expanded interaction functions for Character, Object, InventoryItem, Hotspot and Region types: now they all receive respective object's pointer as a parameter, similar to GUI event functions, as well as a cursor mode this interaction was run with, if applicable.
- Added Game.ResetDoOnceOnly(), which completely resets all DoOnceOnly instances.
- Added Game.PrecacheSprite() and Game.PrecacheView(), which preload certain sprites and linked frame sounds into the engine's sprite cache memory.
- Added ScriptName property to AudioClip, Character, Dialog, GUI, GUIObject, Hotspot, InventoryItem, Object.
- Added static GetByName() function to AudioClip, Character, Dialog, GUI, GUIObject, Hotspot, InventoryItem, Object.
- Added Object.AnimationVolume property, which works similar to Character.AnimationVolume.
- Added static File.ResolvePath() and File.Path attribute.
- Added support for a text formatting to a number of functions: DisplayAtY(), Character.SayAt(), Character.SayBackground(), DrawingSurface.DrawStringWrapped().

Engine:
- Updated to SDL 2.28.5 and SDL_Sound 2.0.3+.
- Significant performance improvement to scripts. Script running speed restored to a level close to AGS 3.2.1. Testing few "script-heavy" games showed fps raise by up to 30-40% compared with 3.6.0 engine.
- Improved performance of String objects in script.
  For instance, appending a character to a String is now roughly x2 times faster, *sequential* iteration of String.Chars[] in Unicode mode is about x12 (!) times faster (Strings in ASCII mode have relatively less improvement, because they have been faster than Unicode mode already).
- Improved performance when creating, deleting and manipulating Overlays; allows the game to have thousands of those with much less slowing down.
- Improved performance when updating and deleting dynamic sprites, and notifying any objects that have to redraw themselves. Engine no longer resets Graphic properties of objects referencing deleted dynamic sprite to 0.
- Implemented "texture cache", in addition to the existing "sprite cache". The texture cache keeps textures generated from raw sprites and lets reusing them, improving performance and reducing CPU workload. The actual impact is proportional to the game's resolution and amount of simultaneously animated objects on screen.
- WFN font renderer now too supports unicode mode and renders texts in utf-8, so long as the font contains glyphs of corresponding indexes.
- Buttons, ListBoxes and TextBoxes now support Right-to-left text direction.
- DrawingSurface.DrawString now supports Right-to-left text direction.
- All the script File functions now treat paths in case-insensitive way (including subdirs), which makes them platform-independent.
- Removed an automatic SetRestartPoint() call at startup. This is done in case user does not want to use default "restart" save slot, or has a custom save system.
- Support handling multiple mouse clicks per game frame, similar to how multiple key presses were supported since 3.6.0.
- When starting up, engine will now precache only first 4 or 8 loops of the starting player character's View. This is done to avoid filling sprite cache with too much sprites at once in case when the player's View contains lots of additional animations.
- Characters will now have their graphic offsets, set by Character.z property and LockViewOffset() function, scaled along with the character's own scaling. This is done so long as the respective game option is enabled in the General Settings.
- Ensure that character and object scaling is updated even when the game is not drawn. This fixes rare issues when their scale property did not update in time whilst the game was completely fadeout, and similar cases.
- Allow to change Character's move speed while its moving.
- When Character is ordered a new move command while already moving, the engine will try to make a smooth transition between old and new moving without a delay.
- Ensure that when Overlays have identical ZOrder they will be sorted in the order of their creation. Besides convenience, this is also meant to restore historical behavior from before Overlay.ZOrder property was introduced.
- Allow game to call DynamicSprite.CreateFromDrawingSurface() and CreateFromBackground() with zero or negative size, clamping it to 1x1, in consistency with Create().
- Engine will now log a warning for the most incorrect parameters to Animate function instead of quitting the game.
- Engine will now skip blocking Character.Say commands instantly while skipping a cutscene.
- Object.SetView now lets invalid loop and frame values, and fallbacks to using loop 0, frame 0, printing a warning. This is also consistent with backwards-compatble SetObjectFrame() behavior.
- Changed Object.SetView() to not play a frame's sound, which could lead to a duplicated sound play if Object.Animate is run right after.
- Text Overlays internal images are now registered as dynamic sprites, and their IDs may be read from Overlay.Graphic. This lets find out their sizes using Game.SpriteWidth/SpriteHeight and optionally draw them somewhere using DrawingSurface.DrawImage.
- Ensure all the script API is now correctly available for the plugins.
- Engine will now safeguard plugin's reading and writing of game saves, so that any mistakes done by plugins won't affect other parts of a save.
- Engine will disable vsync in a "infinite fps" mode, because vsync prevents getting more fps.
- Engine will force any in-game debug messages to be displayed in message boxes, disregarding game's "Display all messages as speech" option.
- Display critical alerts as system modal messages on all platforms that support that (unless engine is run with "--no-message-box" parameter).
- Print some info about memory usage when reporting a "Out of memory" error.
- Deprecated in-game "console", as practically useless.
- Added new config settings in "graphics" section: "sprite_cache_size" (which replaces deprecated "cachemax" in "misc") and "texture_cache_size".
- Fixed Characters may be seemingly "walking in place" for some time when arriving at destination.
- Fixed Display and Say commands treating the second met "&" sign as a voice-over token too (they must only check the first one in string).
- Fixed PlayMP3File() function limiting filename argument by an arbitrary number of characters.
- Fixed speechlines were adjusting their Y position while trying to not overlap GUIs even when these GUIs are completely offscreen.
- Fixed first Sierra-style speechline in a sequence was adjusting its Y position without need when GUIs are set to be hidden during game pause (this includes blocking speech). Normally, the speechlines are adjusting their Y position in order to not overlap GUIs, but when GUIs are hiding during speech there should not be any need to do so.
- Fixed script behavior in case a local variable was assigned a value without being initialized with a zero memory by compiler's intruction beforehand. This is not a problem with the standard compiler, but technically could be an issue with any custom implementation.
- Fixed old-style letterbox viewport getting broken after loading an old pre-3.5.0 save.

Engine Plugin API:
- Added IAGSStream interface, IAGSEngine.OpenFileStream() and GetFileStreamByHandle().
- Added IAGSEngine.ResolveFilePath() method, which resolves a script path (with location tokens) into a proper system filepath.
- Fixed IAGSEngine.GetFontType() incorrectly reporting TTF font type for WFN fonts with more than 128 characters.

Compatibility:
- In Editor, restored all the Character's variables available in "backward-compatible" mode. This is primarily to make it easier to import very old games.
- Allow to run an animation over a loop with zero frames, by using the placeholder frame. This lets particular old games to continue running instead of crashing with error.
- Fixed slower character walking speeds in pre-3.1 upscaled and high-resolution games.
- Fixed Object.SetView() and SetObjectFrame() not treating -1 for loop and frame as "keep previous values" in older games.
- Fixed inventory window not updated after game.top_inv_item is assigned a new value.
- Fixed a "New Room" command in old-style dialog scripts was preventing "First time Enter room" event to be called.

Windows:
- 32-bit Windows engine is now built as "large address aware" program, which will allow it to use up to 3 GB of RAM on 32-bit systems and 4 GB of RAM on 64-bit systems (was 2 GB previously).

iOS:
- Updated port for 3.6.*.

Web / Emscripten:
- Fixed Safari cannot switch the game into fullscreen mode.

WinSetup:
- Added options for setting texture cache and sound cache size.
- Added options to disable particular graphic drivers and graphic driver selection, and fullscreen mode selection.




Thanks to everyone who contributed to and tested this version!

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To be honest, reading everything that Peegee said, I still do not understand what the exact problem is.

English language does not have "accented" letters, and it is the only language that works always, regarding of encoding (because all of its letters are within first 128 characters). Therefore, the issue cannot be that encoding is wrong with that language.

So the issue is with French language instead?
Or perhaps the problem is that they don't switch some assets when changing translations?

@Peegee, could you please clarify which language do you have problems with?
Would you be able to post some screenshots or record a video of a problem? this may make it easier to understand what happens in your game.
Could your programmers also participate in this conversation, maybe they will be able to explain the problem in technical terms?

I am late to this, but might mention for the future reference, that there are alternatives to Room Objects, which have origin in top-left corner:
* GUI, with labels and buttons (buttons may display both images and texts); Because controls are clipped by the parent's edges, these may be used to create a text scrolling effect.
* Overlays: dynamically created in script, may have image or text, may be created in either UI or room "layer".
https://adventuregamestudio.github.io/ags-manual/Overlay.html

Some issues still: When I start the game, it asks me for another app to run this ms-gamingoverlay.

That's odd... that would be an issue with the AGS engine, I think? Maybe we can ask CW.

I doubt that this is related to AGS. I've never heard about this, but a quick search indicate this is related to some service in Windows 10/11:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/1497050/ms-gamingoverlay-link-popup
https://www.minitool.com/news/ms-gaming-overlay-popup.html

With Animate function you are supposed to call LockView before Animate and UnlockView after. This is explained in the relevant article from the manual:
https://adventuregamestudio.github.io/ags-manual/Character.html#characteranimate

ChangeView is not meant for calling Animate, it's meant for setting current standing/walking view that engine animates automatically as character walks around. This is also noted in its article:
https://adventuregamestudio.github.io/ags-manual/Character.html#characterchangeview

To be honest, I cannot tell why exactly it switches to a regular walking view in your second function. Maybe there's another factor affecting this situation. I'd would need to have a minimal test case where the problem reproduces to diagnose this.
In any case, using LockView/UnlockView pair is supposed to ensure that Animate plays correctly.

So could you use the DrawingSurface functions to draw shapes onto a surface using code, then use that as your walkable areas?

Yes.
OTOH you already can dynamically create walkable areas in the room, since AGS 3.6.0:
https://adventuregamestudio.github.io/ags-manual/Globalfunctions_Room.html#getdrawingsurfaceforwalkablearea

So, if you notice from this log, Editor is trying to do delete something.

Apparently, it tries to delete the created game folder in case something went wrong while creating it.
According to the program code, Editor is supposed to display a error message in that case, explaining the reason why it could not create a game from template. Do you get any messages like that?

Can you PM me your game template for a test?

Theoretically, you can edit acsetup.cfg in your game's package by hand before distribution, and put any wanted values, even those that are not present in Default Setup. See here: https://adventuregamestudio.github.io/ags-manual/EngineConfigFile.html

The reason why certain options are not in DefaultSetup, as Khris and eri0o noted above, is that normally it's up to the player to select the size of the window. The maximal scaling (whether max proportional stretch or a max integer factor) is considered to be the a good default, and that is what majority of game developers and players expect.

I'm also curious about your use case; what is your game's native res, and why do you want to enforce the starting window size in game res?

Updated with the new Move and Walk functions:

Code: ags

/// Moves the character along the path, ignoring walkable areas, without playing his walking animation.
function Character.MovePath(Point*[], BlockingStyle=eNoBlock);
/// Moves the character along the path, ignoring walkable areas, automatically playing his walking animation.
function Character.WalkPath(Point*[], BlockingStyle=eNoBlock);
/// Moves the object along the path, ignoring walkable areas.
function Object.MovePath(Point*[], int speed, BlockingStyle=eNoBlock);

Download for a test (based on AGS 4):
https://cirrus-ci.com/task/4605831403012096

Whether it is a strictly flat 2D lighting where objects cast shadow areas behind them and nothing else, or a 3D emulation where object shapes matter, is a critical choice here. 2D would require basic geometry, while 3D emulation would need something like a 3D model or a normals map.

I think that this recent game by Radiant uses 2D grid-based raycasting for calculating visibility:
https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/forums/ags-games-in-production/sherwood-7-day-roguelike-challenge/

Then there's this module for lighting using a normals map:
https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/forums/modules-plugins-tools/module-agslighting-v1-00-normal-maps-in-ags/