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i get an echo on wav files. i want to put a piano in my game. i got a file with one note on it. when you click on the hotspot it plays the sound.

but it seems to echo because i set repeat to only play once.

best help for beginners should be Scummbuddy or TK they seem to be the only people who will answer my obvious questions.

good idea by the way.

the amout of ags games in this list means...  we rock as a community. if everybody was working alone there would not be half as many games that are good. we might all get stuck on one stupid thing or another!

WOO go AGS

gee wizz you have fun tests don't you. nice bunny in the corner. whats the joke? did he copy you?

oh how silly of me, anyway i've sorted out the numbers and is still funny.

It displays your game has been saved but when i try to load it i cannot see it.
what command makes them appear in the list box?
is there another command to make one game delete so i can overwright when i run out of space.?

lance: hey this isn't a religious thread anyway. my room is one of those ones suspended over a walkway between two houses. that may be why it is cold exept over the winter i have  had my heater on for at least 3 hours before i go to bed, it still does it. And yes my heater does work because once you are in the middle of the room it is warm when the heater is on.
maybe the girl was a hullutionation!

Scummbuddy :the lampshade that is swinging was on my cealing. i can't put a box on top of it but if anything else starts to move, i'll try it.

Vel: you seem a very logical person I wish you had said that in the first place rather than insulting us.
my window is never open in my room, it's stuck shut unless you really push, it's winter so no! too cold for that.
I don't drink that much either, i was only joking. what is 53>< anyway? if it is drugs or drink than most likely not.

Thanks that helped a bit (is there a page where tutorials are stored?)
i'm still stuck. my save gui won't save and load gui won't cancel. heres the script.

if (interface == SAVE)
{
 if (button == 0){
   SetTextBoxText (SAVE, 1,"");
   GUIOff (3);}
 else if (button == 1){
   string text;
   int index;
   SetTextBoxText (3,1,"");
   ListBoxSaveGameList (3,1); //Count how many save games there Are
   index=ListBoxGetNumItems (3,1);
   if (index>4){
     Display ("You have too many save files, you must overwrite a previous saved game");
     index=ListBoxGetSelected (3,1);
     SaveGameSlot (savegameindex[index],text);
     }
   else if (index<5){
     GetTextBoxText (3,1,text);
     SaveGameSlot (index+1,text);
     Display ("Your game has been saved.");}
}

if (interface == LOAD)
{
 if (button == 1){
   GUIOff (4);}
 else if (button == 0){
   char index;
   index=ListBoxGetSelected(4,2);
   RestoreGameSlot (savegameindex[index]);}
 }
}
see i've done that script i had done to the others to turn the gui off., by the way 0 is cancel button and 1 is save/load button.

I believe yufter is right! woo rebellion!
no seriously everyone has made really valid points. I laughed at the school saying trousers don't look good on women, to be honest boys should wear them, free the bulges yet we have nothing that "ahem" bulges yet we are given more space? how stange.

Same with men in baggy t shirts while girls fashionably wear tight tops, over thier bulges.
I wear jeans to school, i'm doing A levels so i'm allowed.
By the way trousers without pockets should be outlawed, where will you put your phone, money, sweets, chrisp packets and other assorted junk?

Tell me vel why are we freaks?
I have as much right to believe in what i like (such as the paranormal and such) as you have to breathe!

Minimi I never knew that about elephants, facinating! my aunt has a load of them in her house ( i wonder if thats why it's so cold)

I don't think i'm hullutionating though, i don't do drugs, but my mum and boyfrend can all see odd things in my room such as the lampshade!

I believe maybe these ghoasts could be good lost relitives warning me perhaps?
Though minimi i don't critise your approach it is very sensible to me i don't flame beliefs. I believe someone is out there, but don't go to church because God is everywhere and he can see all i do anyway! I didn't think they got involved with us much though, like letting children learn what is right or wrong by first giving them guidelines and if they don't listen they find out the hard way.

Ya know I feel a hole lot better afer reading that post thanks a bunch.

where do you put them so that the game will run with them?
and will the game crash without them?

I believe I have a ghost in my room.
1. When you walk into my room from the rest of the house it is like walking through a wall of cold air.

2. my lampshade is swinging... started last week, and will not stop. my mum thinks it's because there is a hole in the roof and the winds getting in. But today it is foggy that means no wind at all or the fog will blow away. It was going real bad this morning!

3. bottles of alchol appear for no reason (no wait thats me sorry)

4. I swear i saw a girl sitting on the end of my bed about a year ago!

i'm kinda freaked,

I am making custom save/load menus.
I have been reading through the manual and cannot work out how to make the game save muliple times or how to load it back again.

I have used GetTextBoxText to get a name for the file.
SaveGameSlot needs this input so i am using that but it also asks for a slot to save it to.
Does this mean that i have to do this multiple times each with a different slot number? perhaps using boxes to represent different slot (like playstaion memory cards)
Also the RestoreGameSlot asks for a single integer, do I have to do this multiple times also?

I hope to have this all triggered by pressing a Save or Load button on the gui like in proffesional games.

If it helps this is what i have so far
if (interface == SAVE)
{
 if (button == 0){
   SetTextBoxText (SAVE, 3, 1,"");
   GUIOff (3);}
 else if (button == 1){
   string input
   GetTextBoxText (SAVE, 1, input);

also a Text box and a list box (is this what is required?
thanks alot Gem

OK thanks guys

so in breakdown
I may need an installer but it can be annoying
A manual is important made in either acrobat reader or notepad (i don't have acrobat) maybe HTML (i'm lost on this front i thought you needed a special programme to run it)
I should/ should not winzip it ( will i need to put something on the disk to run it on the other end)

I like the menu screen Idea, Will definately be incorporated, i may have 4 options Run game, load game, quit, and show trailers!
This is supposed to be a demo so i can show off a bit with more trailers as it is supposed to be a selling point for a whole compendium.

last thing, i don't know what programmes or computer the examiner has on the other end, I don't want to fail because he can't see my game! Will AGS run alone and how do I put an installer thing on if i need to. If so  what is it under in the manual ect...

Heres a little puzzle, I am making a game for school, needs to look professional,
made cutscenes for it, only work as AVI but take up 150MB. works fine on computer just takes up an awful lot of memory.
But when I get my game burnt on CD (emailed to a friend who has a rewriter) do you think the 150MB (split into four seperate files) will slow the game at all? The emailing will take the longest.

While i'm here does anyone know where i can get musical notes for nursery rhymes (in ABC notation if possible) I tried to google it but i was stuck. They were all books to order online i don't have the time or money!

One last thing... in an adventure game is it annoying when the whole game has the same music, should I make 2 or 3 files to play in different rooms or replace background music with ambient sound where appropraite?
thats all! gemmalah  

what is PDF? I am planning to use notepad for my user manual.
I'm getting it put on CD to hand to my  teacher does it still need to be compressed?

oh wow how cute, niether of them have a nose but that looks good with the simpsons style overbite.
the alien is rather sweet with it's goofy teeth and i like the thick outlines it is very defined.

I use www gif animator, i got it in a free disk, you can put in bmps and do it like that.

As for where to start how i do it
1. get an idea, make this your first picture, everything stems from that.
2. Move it slightly either an arm or a leg, or whatever, i sometimes do a cartoon strip of what i want my charactor to do.
3. keep going.

Thats rather short i know, other things are..
1. it's easer to make things dissapear then appear, because you start with a picture then get rid of it insted make a picture come out of nowhere. If you want something to appear, do it backwards then reorder the frames the right way when you construct it.
2. practice, take on challenges from friends, my boyfriend wanted me to draw him rolling a fag, so i went one better and he was rolling a joint, i may post it one day.
3. if you can't animate people just yet you can find walking templates around this site. But to begin with animate things you know how they move, I started with an alien because it does not matter if they don't move just right, untill you are better at the whole animating thing.

I am trying to get a few things that make the game look like it was made  well, not by me!

a few things i may, may not need, space is not an issue because this is coursework so i can have sound and other things.

1. Cutscenes
2. Speech (should I have this an opitional feature)
3. Easter eggs, little things to find, how fun!
4. A readme file (in notepad)
5. music
6. a setup file (is this automaticly created by AGS so my game can be played on other computers)
7. System requirements?
8. own icon?
9. save/load system
10. witty comments, or a real dumb main charactor.
11. a moment where you can let your inner child free and create mischief, or kill someone? he he.

*edit* sorry i'm not clear, you can add stuff or just tell me if i'm right, if these things are what i need for my game to look proffessional, it's for schoolwork.

well someone suggested to me to make the flick animation into a charactor then make it have it's own view then animate charactor, this confused me a bit, but i will give this and your idea hollister man a go.

By the way i tried using Avi and it failed miserably, worked great on the programme but filled up nearly 150mb of space! that was not good

if you are too lazy just draw simple stuff first then programme it all them replace it with better stuff, then you don't have to wait untill you finish a background pixel perfect before you carry on.

either that or take photos! would be quick, then draw over them perhaps?