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Hi All,

I was lurking in the beginners tech area for a while as I'm a bit of a forum-a-phobe but decided I'd give this one a shot.

I'm 26 and currently work in EA Games Compliance team (glorified QA, horrifically dull) as a Nintendo Specialist and am desperately trying to claw my way out into a design role.

I came across AGS via the Art of Theft and once I'd read up on it a bit was really quite impressed with it's versatility and wanted to use it as a platform to generate some of my design ideas into a visual application as a means of constructing  something of a portfolio. For the record I'm also learning Action script to make some flash games, Maya for GFX and Hammer Editor for some level design.

I live in Madrid with my girlfriend and two cats though am English born. I've been playing games since I were a nipper and intend to do so until my dieing days (much to my girls chagrin).

Look forward to interacting with ya'll and hope I can become a useful member of the forum.

Hasta luego!

Doing arbitrary compliance checks on EA Games software at the age of 26 makes me want to leap from the highest building and head butt the pavement. Recently I found AGS and being an utter n00b at scripting accomplishing even the smallest victories make me feel like Rocky.

My advice find an example of human life you DON'T want to turn into and every time you feel unmotivated and just say to yourself "Every second I sit here doing nothing constructive I turn bit by bit into that person". Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't but it's worked for me in my laziest moments.

A lot of telly/cinema has given me the proverbial lump in the throat, but I don't think it's really true sadness more a complete welling of enthusiasm for a tv/film "moment" that has been done so perfectly it couldn't be done better.

For example: Azeem's speech near the end of Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (aka the best film ever made) makes me want to leap up from the sofa every time and shout encouragement to the brooding Saracen:

Azeem: Join us, Join Robin Hood!!!!

Me: YEAH!!!!! *cries* f*** em up Azeem!!!!!.. (turning to who evers nearest in a triumphant weep) I bloody love this movie! 

I serached the manual for SetPlayerCharacter (referenced in the BFAQ) not SetAsPlayer, this is where I got lost I guess.

anyway..

Awesome THX!!!!!

Hi there,

I'm very new to AGS and am using it to learn base scripting. I've been trying to use the 'SetPlayerCharacter' command to allow a switch between two onscreen chars I have got after choosing to interact with a hotspot. The room code is as follows:

function hPrestswitch_Interact()
{
SetPlayerCharacter() (cChan.SetAsPlayer()
}

function hChanswitch_Interact()
{
SetPlayerCharacter() (cPrest.SetAsPlayer()
}

However wen trying to run the game and error occurs stating: 'Undefined token 'SetPlayerCharacter'

I understand this is more than likely a simple issue pertaining to my complete lack of experience with coding, if someone could point me in the right direction I would really appreciate it.

I have searched the forums and read the BFAQ but get the feeling I'm missing something very straight forward.

Thank you for your time.