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Is there a faster way to change an objects size other than by reimporting it with more or less blank space?

Is it possible to change an area that was walkable a no walk zone?

Im trying to make it look like the power has cut off so everything is darker.  I know how to make the characters darker but I dont know how to make the rooms darker short of making 15 new rooms which would take up way to much space.  Is there any way I can just make the entire room several shades darker.

How exactly would I make a countdown timer like at the top of the screen counting down from 10?

This isnt a scripting question but a question on any good methods to make sounds.  should I actually mimic the action and record the sound to then be played.  The main problem I am having is with different footsteps (carpeting, tile, etc.,) however I am also not sure what do to for the sound of someone being stabbed considering I haven't recently stabbed anyone.  So if you all have any suggestions it would be appreciated.

I just want to know if having a lot of global variables could become a problem and if so how many would be a problem?

I know how to make footsteps have sounds using the sound on frame option, however I have no idea how I can change the sound depending on the room.  I think theres a way to change it and I would just have to put it in the on room load section of events but im not sure how to even change the sound file used for each frame.

Sometimes when I compile my game and run it in full screen most of the screen is black and i have to minimize it and bring it back up to see the whole thing.  Any idea how I can fix this or is it just a common AGS thing?

I just set up the room to have lightning and it calls the script at the right times, all I need to know is how do I have it actually show the lightning.  I already have an animated background so I cant use setbackgroundframe, and I already tried using regionlighting and regiontint.  So what should I use to change the window to white momentarily?

In one of the scenes for my game there were 6 people all sitting around a table then giving  toast and drinking from a glass of wine.
Im posting this to see if anyone knows a better way to do this.  How I did it was I set up for each of the people a new view with four different directions and for each of their movements I had them face a different direction.  Unfortunately they bounced aroud the room a little bit because they were all different sizes and I ended up takeing a section of the background with teh characters there and then having each frame be the same size.... This was very time consuming so I was wondering if anyone had any idea of a simple way to do this.

My name is Nathan Carter.  
Though... My current associates know me only as Arthur Barrington.
Im a con artist and the person I am working on now could be my biggest job yet. After this I hope to retire.
You see Victor Samuels a rich entrepreneur is having a dinner party with his closest friends tonight and I happen to be among that company.
As far as I can tell there is a decent chance that something illegal is going on at his company and blackmail is my specialty.
I should be able to search the house tonight when the opportunity presents itself and hopefully it wont be long till I get my reward.  
This may sound corny but this should be a night to remember.




Nathan may have understated just how much of a night to remember this will be but then he doesn't know whats going to happen does he?  Everything goes well and then something goes horribly wrong that puts the lives of Nathan and all the other party guests in danger (and perhaps a few others) and he has to rely on his (or rather your) wits to make it through the night.




Updated:

Story:  100%
Scripting: 97%
Graphics: 100%
Music and sounds: 100%

Comments and criticism welcome

EDIT: I realized I haven't credited the people I'm working with.  My brother does the art (he isn't on AGS) and Something13 is doing the music.

Hey I was working on my game and I was checking to see if I had done the scripting right and out of nowhere the game closed itself and this appeared:

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Illegal exception
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An exception 0xC0000005 occurred in ACWIN.EXE at EIP = 0x004230B8 ; program pointer is +72, ACI version 3.12.1074, gtags (66,17)

AGS cannot continue, this exception was fatal. Please note down the numbers above, remember what you were doing at the time and post the details on the AGS Technical Forum.



Most versions of Windows allow you to press Ctrl+C now to copy this entire message to the clipboard for easy reporting.

An error file CrashInfo.dmp has been created. You may be asked to upload this file when reporting this problem on the AGS Forums. (code 0)
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OK   
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I checked in my script to see if that was the problem and I dont see anything wrong and I dont even remember changing anything there before I started testing it so I think it could be a bug in AGS.

If anyone can help me out please let me know soon so I can get back to my game.

-Thanks