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I'm 31...Usually I qould be out in the garden, perhaps having a few beers. But now? No. I'd rather sit inside watching TV...

We're having a mini heatwave here in the UK and I've just realised that all I've done since the sun decided to grace us with his presence is moan continuously that it's too darn hot and would rather stay inside at the computer.

Am I getting old?

Wow... VERY impressive!  Could almost have been the intro from a Deep Silver game.

Any chance you could throw this up on Youtube of Vimeo sometime?  Can't embed the video from Facebook, I'd like to feature your trailer on my blog.

Here you go buddy - it's HD too:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdipiaXDvO8

For those interested, the full opening introduction video to the game has now been uploaded to the Facebook page here: http://www.facebook.com/calmwatersgame

It's pretty much the whole video although I'll probably make a slight edit when I have the time to the music/change just after the main title card.

Hi Joshy

I've just sent you your email my friend - it was my fault, I got distracted :/

New screenshot added. I'm experimenting with a film-like noise/grain overlay as you can see from the image below:

Thank you gentlemen! Putting the code in the room_load function sorted it. I now have a grainy-film look which adds a boatload of atmosphere to the game

Still nothing. No animation. The first frame shows up but that's it.

I'm aware of the Animate function as I've already read the manual. However, it doesn't seem to work. Here's what I have in repeatedly_execute_always()

Code: ags

BtnGrain.Animate(6, 0,  4,  eRepeat);

The GUI button is called BtnGrain. The animation of 3 'grain' frames is in View 6, Loop 0.

The LockView is from the GUIAnimation module. I'll try it the alternative way with the button. Cheers guys

I've found couple of topics on this but none of them really explains what to do - unless I've missed one, plus I didn't want to micro-post on an old thread.

I'm wanting a full GUI overlay, with an animated background image of noise. I have between 3-5 images of noise that I have to overlay, with the correct GUI transparency of course.

The problem is, using the following in the Global script:

Code: ags

gGrain.Transparency=82;
gGrain.LockView(NOISE);
gGrain.Animate(0, 2, eRepeat);

overlays the transparent GUI and it looks great, but the problem is, there's just no animation.

What am I doing wrong?

I usually say it's a cross between Twin Peaks and Lost, with a dash of Alan Wake thrown in there for good measure.

The story itself hasn't been done before (at least what I'm aware of).

Thank you for the compliment

I've fixed the Z-Order issue. For some stupid STUPID reason I'd copied two different variants of the Description Plugin code into both the GlobalScript AND a Room. One set to use Overlay and the other to use GUI. Of course, with Overlay, you can't set the Z-Order. Anyhow, the problem has been resolved. I just feel like a bloody fool now. I am so sincerely sorry for wasting any of your time.

Of course, this means that your plugin works flawlessly for me

Oh dear lol. There's no rush - I can still keep plowing on in terms of coding and it still ultimately works, I just want it to be polished. It certainly is a baffler :/

Absolutely amazing plugin though!

Has anybody any idea on why this is happening? I really want this plugin but might have to go without it

I seem to be experiencing an issue when creating the Voice Script. It creates the file in the AGS folder but the .txt file is blank, apart from the header:

*** All text lines, in order of appearance in the scripts ***

I'm baffled?

No problem, thanks for letting me know. Is it something you are considering implementing?

It's the modified engine so I guess that's the reason why?

["The background scene for this room is smaller than the game resolution. If you have recently changed the game resolution, you will need to re-import the background for this room."]

Running my 1280x720 game I receive the following error as soon as I try to run it:

"The background scene for this room is smaller than the game resolution. If you have recently changed the game resolution, you will need to re-import the background for this room."

ALL backgrounds are 1280x720 and I even double-checked and re-imported them all so I've no idea why I'm receiving this error? I also tried starting the game in different rooms but still receive the same error.

Yeah, it has me baffled too.

The Z-Orders aren't physically changed in the properties windows, no. I've even tried setting the Z-Orders in the script after the room changes but alas, it has no effect. Using the plugin seems to just render all Z-Order settings as void, no matter what they're set at.

I'm under the impression that the video itself could perhaps have it's own Z-Order? This isn't my thing so I'm probably wrong.

If I remove the plugin then hey-presto, everything works again so it seems to be down to the plugin, unfortunately :/

Does anyone else have any suggestions?

Ah, I did use that code but put it BEFORE the video was actually loaded...DUH! Cheers AJA

EDIT: I've actually just noticed that using this plugin seems to messup the Z-Order of my GUIs (particulartly the SSH's Description Module). If I've been playing a background video and progress to another room, the Z-Order of the Description Hotspot over the Inventory items falls BEHIND them.

However, if I go to that room WITHOUT first visiting the room with the background video, I have no issues with the Z-Order on the inventory.

Any ideas at all?