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hi,

i'd try making a batch file. (read a batch tutorial first, to learn how to code it -it's easy)

-always start agsgame with this batch
_______________________
in ags:
-press download button
-save a variable xy to some .txt file
-ags_quit
_______________________

in .bat:
-check variable xy in .txt file
-if xy is != 0 then
-start download manager (check settings for your dm to access your website etc.)
________________________
in download manager (thats a part i don't know much about):
-maybe your download manager tells you when it has downloaded the file, use this information to return to the batch file (this might be difficult)
-if so start an install or patch maker from within the batch file.
-if not, try to start it from within the dm
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a patchmaker (www.clickteam.com -it's freeware) should do the rest. (it's easy too...)



additional:
-hide ags.exe in windows, to make sure every user opens the batch
-use an batch_to_exe_tool to make your .bat file an .exe, you can also make an icon for it.
       


also, in ags you can use dorcan's filenet plugin, to download/upload SMALL files from/to
a website:
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php?topic=28261.0

*menaze*

It seems as if I have to do it the "animate-object-way" then.
But its a lot of work, especially if you have to sync sound and picture with so many frames :-(  Nontheless, the FLC part sounds good. I'll try that.

Still I'm not completely satisfied.
Is there a good plugin-writer out there, who can tell if a plugin like this is possible?
As far as I know, AGS plugins are written in VisualC++
So does VC++ provide a function that simply shows movie-files (avi/mpg/etc.) at  specific coordinates. Would it be possible to make a plugin of this function and so import it to AGS? Well, most probably it's not that easy, is it?

Still, if somebody has a good idea on how to do this, I'd appreciate every suggestion.  Thanks so far proximity and Ashen :-)

I want to make a cinema-room soon. But what is a cinema without movies, i asked myself?  I tried a testroom already, putting an animated object with frames of a movie in it. But object animations are limited and it's hard to do it frame by frame, too.
I don't want to use PlayMovie, because it's Fullscreen only.


So, do you know of a plugin that displays movies in the background? Is it possible to make one?
Do you know of a tool/plugin that, lets say, converts a movie into an ags-readable file from which you can f.e. use raw-draw-image or so?

I hope I made it understandable. I think this would be very useful since there are many possibilties, like computers, cinemas, televisions, other animations... that could use this. Don't get me wrong, I don't want to show "Lord of the Rings " in this cinema, but like a little 100*60 screen (or even smaller) with a small movie of lets say 60 seconds film or so. I'm not so familiar with formats yet, but one could resize the movie/reduce quality in another program...

Anyone else who thinks this is useful, please post your suggestions here...

Maybe I should post a "suggestion: avi's in rooms" No i better don't :-)

*Menazerus*

Here is another 2D fight script.
I made it to provide a boxfight to my game.
It allows you to start a fight between player character and an enemy.
-You can declare lots of atributes f.e. health, distances, powerofhit in different
body regions (high hit ,middle hit, low hit), idleness time...
(the current enemy is a normal person, not too weak and not too strong)
-You can control the player by the keyboard (f.e.numpad)
-You can have lots of different enemys easily.
-Status bars included.
-enemy has "Artificial Intelligence", well it looks good for me...
-You do not need to write tons of code. One command starts the fight!
-You just need ONE view for the whole animation
(that's mainly why I had to do this, the other box scripts need thousands of
  views, here any character needs just one single view.)
-Actions are: hit(high,mid,low, each: 2 different animations possible),
                     parry(h/m/l),
                     step forward/backward,
                     getting hit(h/m/l),
                     dying(no more health)

Here is the script for you, it comes with documentation/help...

RTF-Document:
http://www.uni-weimar.de/~bockstet/menace/characters/Boxscript.rtf
Html-Document:
http://www.uni-weimar.de/~bockstet/menace/characters/BoxFightScript.htm


Have Fun *Menaze*

I did a small conversion, it worked for me. It has 32-bit resolution though.

Format: .Avi
File size: 62 kB
Divx 6 required

Get it here
http://www.uni-weimar.de/~bockstet/menace/characters/Test1.avi

Well, as Snarky mentioned you should use f.e. VirtualDub to convert your file to the wanted format and stuff... I also would recommend VirtualDub because its easy to handle and freeware.

Wow Dorcan, thats awesome!!!

That plugin is great. I will try it out. Also I'm curious how this will develop. There's quite a lot potential in this plugin.
Man, I think I will try to learn to make plugins, too. This increases everybodys options to the max... 

Well, I think I'm busy now... Thank you

Well, I dont have any experience with the tcp/ip plugin yet. It makes multiplayer games possible. But can it also access a web server? Also i would need a function that saves the variable in a file on the server...?
Maybe someone who is more experienced with tcp/ip can help.

I also thought of another way,
I could make a batch build up like this (dont mind the syntax):

-----------------.bat-----------------
-open ags.exe
          ags filewrites test.php
-open test.php (when ags closed-it doesnt work as long ags is open,right?)
          test.php sends variables to server
---------------------------------------

does this make sense or am i wrong ? your help is very welcome...
thank you *Menaze*

Hello,

I was wondering if i can send a variable to a website.
The Player of my Game would get the ability to send his/her score to my homepage, where it is saved in a txt./html./etc. file or something.

So here are my questions:

1. Is it possible to send something to the net via AGS?
2. If not can i do a workaround? F.e. using the tcp/ip plugin? (no idea if this could work, maybe someone can tell me)
3. If both, 1 and 2, dont work, can i make a bat. file or something similar build up
like this:    start ags-ags outputs variable-variable is send to the web?

I havent found any threads like this yet, maybe other people have thought of this already, maybe its useful for some games. In any case it would be a nice feature. What do you think. Can anybody help. Thank you *Menaze*


edit:
in case this works i have another question:
can i read a variable FROM the website and display it in my AGS game?