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It's not so popular here because it's not an AGS game, I think you may find more help if you ask it in their board.

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* Gilbot V7000a walks near Vel like a Xmas ghost!

But then, LQ is valuable not just because it's the first "complete" AGS game but it's actually teh first "complete" AC game.

Please be more descriptive, what script/code/interactions/etc. did you actually used? You may also upload your sample game if you want.

Yeah  it's always important to remember that when you declare an array, the index runs from 0 to size - 1.

I think this info should be put somewhere in the sticky threads of the Beg. tech. forum (if it wasn't done so).

* Gilbot V7000a was actually planning on some game with similar features, but as he didn't make any games (yet), so...

Heh actually what I meaned was that 7 frames is considered A LOT already, and you wrote "only".

I like your sprite and teh animation is very smooth.

only?2? 7 frames?

Maybe I'll illustrate this further with pictures:
Teh original array:

when hashed into a 1-D array:


so for example the [1][3][2]-th element would be the (5 * 20 + 3 * 5 + 2)-th (same formula expanded, see 5*4=20) element in the 1D-array.


For the declaration part, like scorpion mentioned, you can't declare them all at once "on-the-fly" currently, if you really need to declare a large array with varioyus data, you may try using some external files so the game will load its content to fill in the array(s), see the file related functions of the manual.

It's just simple maths.

Say if you want to make a (3 * 4 * 5) array, there will be a total of (3 * 4 * 5) = 60 elements. So you need to define:

int blah[60];

Generally if you want the [ a ][ b ][ c ]-th element, you may refer it to
((a*4 +b)*5 + c)-th element. (note that a, b, c starts from 0).

For example, if you wantÃ,  [ 1 ][ 3 ][ 2 ]-th element, you just calculate index= (1*4 + 3)*5 + 2 = 37, so the required entry is blah[37].

You can define a function to calculate the index, example:

function CalIndex(a,b,c){
Ã,  return ((((a*4)+b)*5)+c);
}

To calculate back the "a" "b" "c" indices (say from a single index d), you can use the following calculations (note:division in ags is integer division):
a = d/(4 * 5);
b = (d/5)%4;Ã,  Ã,  //we can use mod now for V2.61+
c = (d%(4 * 5))%5;

You can write functions for them in similar way.

Note that the above calculations involve using the % (mod) operator, which is only available in V2.61+ (not yet official released), if you want to have them without using mod, you can do:

a = d/(4 * 5);
b = (d/5) - (a * 4);
c = (d - (a *4 * 5)) - (b * 5);

I'm just too lazy to find out the correct height (actually I DON'T know my exact height ), so I never care about it.

I hate someone who have time to make ever-changing animated rogers as his avatar.

hehe yeah, happened to me too. I once spent nearly an hour to track down my mistakes on braces.

If you're still looking for square roots, read this.

Not many I guess, but there're still some.

At least I'll be one who will use DOS version whenever possible.

And I'd rather like Las to have a treatment in a ZUMEX machine.

Well I just like to do this manually, and this is VERY easy using Opera.

if (character[GetPlayerCharacter()].inv[4] > 0) {
ObjectOn(4);
} else {
ObjectOn(4);
ObjectOn(1);
}

I think it may be dependent on the sound card drivers, but you're not supposed to be playing any non-game sound while an ags game is running anyway.

Actually I'd rather see the demo quest simple, stating clearly how things can be archieved, blah bla bla, etc. If it's made into a "full-size game" with eyecandies, etc, it's quite difficult for newbies to focus on different parts of the techniques used.

Looks great as before, but I think you may change the bg from black to something else, as it now clashes with the character, making it so dark to see details (using this crap monitor here at least), and the animations are quite fast for me to make out details too.