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Just a matter of scripting, as I believe that all the cuscenes in Monkey Island (teh first ) were just like scripted cutscenes in ags games. It's not difficult to script an intro, you just need to know the scripting basics (where goes what, what comes after what etc ) and the commands, which all are found in the manual.

Damn me... I figured it out half an hour or so after posting that... well, I'm sorry....

Isn't the unhaldeled_event called only when the hotspot or object or so has no interaction for the current cursor mode, and if it has a 'any click' interaction, it serves for all cursor modes, so the unhandeled_event isn't meant to be called.

To get the extra cursor modes, say you use GlobalInt 80 to keep track on which mode is used, you just need to put

if (GetGlobalInt(80)==1) { // if, say, 'Push' mode is number 1, and the user clicked on the hotspot with the Push mode
DisplaySpeech(EGO,"I can't move it");
}

or something.

IsOverlayValid check if the specified number overlay is on screen. All speech is overlays, and when the speech disappears, the overlay is no longer valid, so the number is se back to 0. when the overlay is valid, the variable comtains the overlay ID, which is needed when you want to remove the overlay or change it's text.

Overlay another possibility, but GUI the best.

Using a GUI, where you have a label, into which you set the commentary text with SeLabelText() script command when needed. Or use overlays, check from the manual and see if you can figure it out.

My nick all uppercase since they initials... I could use the irc alt "TeeKay", which I pronouce it also as... that make sence? And btw. I make up a load of wierd names when thinking on my game ideas and plots, all before played pleurghburg...

Sorry to bump in but... Whistle? From where, if I may ask? Or have I just been blind again and it hangs in Jake's apartment on some wall or something?

You got m0ds' point not? That's the idea! And when you can, you help others, or am I wrong again?

[EDIT]Dammit! No sound FX![/EDIT]

Next: How was detective Bob Scott's chair pinched?

I am surely wrong again, but I have an odd feeling Chris has tried to do it.....

* TK hides

If you want your character to talk, make a new view..and import just for every direction the animation of talking. Look at the list at the VIEW section, wich number of view you have... something like 2 , or 3... #1 is taken by the standard roger character.
fill in this number at the CHARACTERS, talking view for your character

That's just what I said...

You draw the animation frames in your favourite paint program, then import them to AGS in the sprite editor, make them a new view, and set the character's talking view the the view you just made.

See? Where are you from, btw?

Daze?

offtopic - Scorpiorus has earned his place in many credits, I believe

oh dear.... in the character pane in AGS there is a talking view setting.

From what I have now read, I think this game is gonna be great, if all the features all met, or most of them at least. I want to play it!

It's a fraggin' template. The .agt comes from Adventure Game Template. You put the file in the main AGS directory, start AGS, choose "create new game", select the template form the dialog, type in the game folder name, and click the "next" button... And if there's no "next" button in it, I mean the button that ain't "back".

Got it? Someone come poor a bucket of cold water on me so I can cool off a bit...

My thoughts are right now like tied to big knot, or I'm just thinking of so damn many things at once (I can think of a lot at once, but now I'm thinking TOO much), or I'm just very confused... And I dont even know why! I could say it's a miracle I haven't made many serious typos today.... or in this post.... (I wrote the blahblah below before this chapter) That proves I can think of may things at once. Now I feel like that I want to break somegthing, or bash my head on the wall, or strangle somebody to nearly uncongious, or climb to the roof and jump down, or just talk and talk and talk and talk, like I do now, exept that I'm typing now.... And besides, I'm sure SOMETHING will go seriously wrong later today, but I have a strange feeling it's not going to happen... or then I have a feeling that something will go wrong, but either nobody notices it, or it's so minor that nobody cares.

so...

Right now I'm trying to clear my mind, since I want to do something intelliget tonihgt. Perhaps I'll go fool on irc anyway...

I'm listening to power metal loud.... Just waiting for someone to come complain, so I can tell them to finally get the soundproof door... or block the gab underheath it... Since I want some privacy here too! Sometimes when I'm here doing something (mostly somehow connected to AGS) or doing nothing, those damn kids behind that fraggin' door start making noise. No that they know it's irratating me... it's natural for them, I guess... But anyway.... And sometimes they play music that I just HATE! Some day I'll kick that door in, unless people do something about it...

And I want a drumset...

And the reason I'm posting this in this thead is... maybe either because of the incability to work, or the fact that someone is disturbing... I just dont know who is disturbing me... In case the moderators think this post is irrelevant or abusive or anything, I apologize, and ask for a little mercy....

I think that's about all...

Oh, a good way to get rid of some annoying people is to annoy them back. Nothing more... Or talking with them, asking the to stop, maybe ( Just noticed I can type 'maybe' correct! It used to become 'maby') nagotieting (neuvotella?) with them about the matter... or just annoy them back...

The cymbal idea was good, too...

Probaply my longest post EVER in ANYWHERE....

Sorry about all the caps and stuff... It comes out natural... I haven't used formating, so I quess I'm playing by the rules, at least most of them....

And writing all this really cleared my head a little! And my heart stopped beating so damn fast... I seem calm... I just cant stop writing... I must, though. I want to thank ya all already ('allready' stroke again... :) though you haven't done anything special, just been there, and since I'm alive, no-one of you appearantly doesn't want to kill me very serious... we'll need to re-check (or is it reincheck or somehing?) after this post. Anyone happen to know a good game for unloading agression and that sort of things, made with AGS? Don't give any of the long adventures, since P:DA seems to occasionally add those thins... and short games are not so good either... didn't take long to finish Permanen Daylight once I got started... It's been on my hd for a VERY long time, and I finally started playing it... and finished... oh damn.... Is there a limit in the lenght of posts?

[Very confused, but happy, yet sad aswell, and also really nutty, smiley here]

Can't you run executables from a webserver? You just upload the exe and a unique config file to diffrent folders on the severs, and link them with discriptions, such as "Default sound driver, lo res, lagn english" or so... takes up space, in case the exe is large...

Yes, just use sprites imported to 640x480 res. You are though only able to move them on a grid of 2 pixel squares, but they show up as they should in both, the editor and the game.