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When I came on the site yesterday I did fall for this April fool's joke after I had read the posts, despite the obvious signs that pointed that it was a joke! Glad now that I didn't post to air my disappointment before I realized that it was. I even searched AGS on Wikipedia to see if it had been updated!!!  I thought it was quite amusing though, how I actually fell for this joke (as if CJ would make such a ghastly background colour & title without saying first about the merger) and I'm sure if a few of the other members were honest did also.       . What about Drugbust though? I suppose that was part of the joke but from the screenshots and demo it looked really good!

In the third screen of my intro I am trying to rotate the background image using the "Animate backgrounds" button. The background images are the same as each other apart from some objects in the sky, so that it looks as if objects are moving in the sky.

I'm trying to add some animation to the background in the intro of my game, by using the "animating backgrounds" function, although for some reason it doesn't work.
It works in another room of the game, although it doesn't work in the other one that I want it to.

Any suggestions as to what the problem could be?

Thanks

That's great, thanks.
I can now access the helpfile from a different website.

Incase you're interested my attempts at making games can be downloaded from the following links from yousendit.com:

http://s64.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=331QJ76DL1LK22MBMPQNX12NHA

http://s64.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0LRF2KOBD0CAT0W3NUGN5H4B8

http://s41.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=21813BF1L67U10MESGI712T7KE

They're pretty bad and not really worth downloading but maybe they might inspire some ideas to create a proper game.

Thanks

Hi, thanks for both your help.
I have no probelm accessing help files on my computer, the problem just seems in the AGS folders.

I've tried clicking on "ags-help" in the compressed folder but I still get the same message.

I have AGS version 2.7 but I am unable to access the help contents that came with it. I have clicked on "Help" and "help contents" but all that comes up is "the page cannot be displayed" Any suggestions?

Ok, here is the link to one of my first games I created. I didn't really create it for release something but it hasn't yet been released yet so I suppose this is the appropriate forum for it. Before you download this game I would like to say that I am only getting to grips with the basics of AGS and so this game is nothing more than one guy moving to one room to the next (There are only 6 scenes/rooms). Only download it to play if you really haven't anything else to do, otherwise it's not worth your time. To me it was an absolute triumph but in comparison to the rest of the games I've played, (even the really bad ones) I can probably say that this would probably rank as the worst one out of the lot! So don't say you haven't been warned how bad this game is! The object of the game is to get one object and give it to a beggar, but their are a few objects you can pick up (try not to click the eye arrow on any object you pick up, as this can sometimes crash the game). Well that's about all I can say about the game really except one interesting fact I haven't yet told you. The  character frames were first drawn by me in pencil and then scanned into my computer, I then used the windows programme "paint" to paint the frames, this shows how bad my drawing skills are. But I have to say that there is some humour in the game and the movement of the character is enough to make you laugh, (well it made me laugh after I created it). This game can be downloaded 25 times from now until the 6/11/05. Thanks 


http://s52.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0Q6BCFI1EJ7380WJ35HUI3YVQ0

Thank you for your reply.
I know how to make views in as much as asigning a view to a particular character.

I don't really know anything about script and I guess that the information you gave me needs to be included into a script to work.
Is there anyway to activate an animation by using the simple point and click interface :o?

I made a game last night in under three hours, I'm thinking of uploading it and maybe it could go in the joke section? Although, I'm not sure if it's good enough, even for the joke section?

I have been trying for a while to create a simple animation flick in my game without success. What would be the best way to start? I presume that some of easiest ways would be if a character interacts with an object that releases a character view, runs an animation loop, sets an idle animation or starts an object animating. I haven't had any success with any of these yet. I would be grateful for any advice. Thanks

  Just one question:
I have a demo of a game that I'm working on and I would like to send it to other people via e-mail. The size of the file in a compressed zip folder is 170mb but my e-mail only allows up to 16mb. Is there anyway to get around this?
Thanks

maybe its the pallet thing
maybe you did a game with 256 colors than you imported a image with 16bit color or something

o/

I am using the lowest resolution for the game and am saving the pictures as 256.bmp, so I don't think that that's the problem.
I have tried just drawing a simple picture in 256 colours and importing it into the frame but that doesn't work either.

I have found that using photos for background images is very effective and saves time drawing them. :

I wish to do the same with a character.
When I try to import a sprite to the character frame I use grab image and it shows the picture on the view, however when I test the game all that can be seen is a black square.
I have reduced the size of the picture that I am importing for the character but this does not make any difference.

Any suggestions?
Thank you

That's absolutely brilliant!
Thank you ever so much!
I knew that there was a simple solution to this problem.

While I'm here I might as well ask if anyone knows where you can download a free graphics programme to draw backgrounds and sprites?
I am currently using a programme called "paint" but the zoom in doesn't zoom in enough to let you do detailed pictures.

Oh & one more question, when I try to export a character to another file and name it .bmp the graphics programme I am using doesn't recognize the format, any suggestions?
Thanks once again

 ???Hi there,
I have just joined the forum and am attempting to create my first adventure game.
I know that you have to read the forums and guides before posting here, (which I have done) but I haven't been able to solve this problem.

I have no knowledge of scripting or making computer games, although I have always really wanted to make one since playing the early Sierra games.
The game I am trying to create is quite basic at the moment, all I am trying to do is go from one room to the next and looking at different hotspots and displaying different messages.
I am finding it quite fun but currently have a problem where the character appears on a non walkable area when entering a new room.
The solution to this problem in one link on the site is:

From the manual:
NewRoomEx

NewRoomEx (int room_number, int x, int y);

Identical to NewRoom (see), except that the player character is placed at coordinates (X,Y) in the new room.

Example:

NewRoomEx(4,100,50);

will move the player character to room 4, at coordinates 100,50.

but this means nothing to me as I have no knowledge of scripting.
I have tried to put this message into the (i) button under the room settings but I think that it needs something else to activate it.

Basically I need to know how to change the X and Y position of the character in the room that isn't the first one.
It's easy to position the character on the first room because of the start character in room option.

I apologize if this question is too basic but there doesn't seem to be any other way than posting to find out the answer to this.
Thank you
Gaz