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unless you specifically tell it to not remap the slots.

how do you tell it to NOT remap? It didn't ask me!

[>>HERE<<]

Can someone explain why the palette cycling does not happen in the background image? I suspect it has something to do with "game palette"/"background palette" because the shifting does happen on the character and GUI.

My mock-up game >>HERE<<

Note: the shifting is done in the room's RepExec script.

GFX2 is open source, you could always code a sequence-exporter function yourself...

Yeah, RIGHT...

I think I'm gonna go brute force and whip up a very small program (based on some SDL tutorial, it shouldn't be too hard) that will just open my drawing, do the palette cycling, then export the frames one by one.
...Because so far, I've never ever managed to capture a video game animation using a capture tool (the game's fps never match the capture frequency).

EDIT: actually, I could do it with AGS ;-)

There is some palette cycling going in in there.
Now, all I need is to find a way to export this... Not an easy task!

Cool, thanks!

In the meantime I've finally understood how the palette cycling in GrafX2 works (that is a pile of super counter-intuituve interface choices, but eh, that won't be changed in 2015)

[32-bits]

Hello, the game I'm working on is 32-bits but I'd like to simulate palette cycling for an animation.

Question 1: what software? I thought that'd be an easy one and launched GrafX2. However I can't seem to make the palette cycling work properly, and can't find any tutorial. However I'm almost certain that there's something fishy going on (a bug on the most recent Windows?)
I'm reluctant to use something that's not free or something that has a steep learning curve (I also have an efficiency constraint here). I could use Deluxe Paint in DosBox but I'm fairly certain there has to be a better way. I'm very open. If you're telling me that I can use Photoshop or After Effects with whatever filter, I'm OK with that.

Question 2: export process. Ideally, I'd like to have several cycles running simultaneously. If it turns out to be too complicated, I'll just make the longer cycles multiples of the shortest cycle, to get a perfect loop. Or I'll just export the image in several pieces, with one cycle in each piece. It doesn't matter, it'll all be AGS Loops in the end. But my issue is: I need to export the whole thing into separate frames and I wish to avoid as many bad last-minute surprises as possible.

By the way if you simply know a program that records the screen and exports it as a lossless video, then I'm in. This way all I have to do is to "capture" my Deluxe Paint window.


Just to make things clear: there will be no scripting involved. The plan is only to generate a regular animation, and then import it into AGS.

[stability]

what are the chances you (or we) will solve them in the Middle East or North Africa?

Well the roadmap is pretty clear:
1) Stop relying on oil, (that, you do at home, by investing in renewable energies)
2)Stop maintaining chaos there only to please some financial partners (either to sell weapons to Saudi Arabia, or to not upset Israel when it comes to Palestine).

All of that sounds fairly easy, provided there's the will. It's not even about willpower, it's purely about stop believing in fairytales like "it helps more to divide local populations to maintain control than it would help to let them live". It's all about post-colonization management and outdated, colonial beliefs.

PS: Maoism died out in China only because the country gained sufficient financial stability and political independance at some stage. Before Mao arrived, it was a rotting feudal empire, dealing with a stagnating economy and invasive neighbours (Japan, Russia...).  Now China is more about middle class and consumerism than whatever revolutionary movement.

Or you could be like MONSIEUROUXX and bow yourself out. 

I "bowed myself out" only because the composition of my scene was not built around the phone booth. Not because it was related to a game I'd be making. That's perfectly fine with me -As I said, provided it's not obvious that the competition's theme is just an accessory shoved into an entirely unrelated scene.


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On a different note: I think I'll enter the competition, but I think the background will need to be animated, to do the pyrotek some justice. I know that animation requires an entirely different set of skills. Sorry if that sounds unfair.

I agree with Snarky on this one.  Fanatics are rarely satisfied with anything.  Give them what they want and they will be emboldened and want even more. 

This is not what I said at all. Like, at all. Wanting stability in these countries is not the same as "trying to satisfy fanaticals". How did you even


Also, about the fanaticals coming from France and Belgium: you'd be surprised by the poverty in some areas. In the US, very poor people are called "white trash" and some of them turn to tea parties and that sort of fanatism. In France and Belgium, the poorest class in society is (because of historical circumstances and colonialism) mostly made of the second or third generation of North-African immigrants who have more bonds with some trashy-fantasy version of Islam, just like white trash in the US has this trashy-fantasy version of Christianity. And even then, at least in the US, living in a caravan in the middle of nowhere can still be sort-of glorified because there's still this Far West fantasy from the 1800's. In France, if you live in a project housing, are unemployed, and on top of everything if you have the Arabian type, then you're virtually  at the very bottom of society. But they're the same. And it's all caused by poverty, lack of education, and rejection. They're the "left behind".

Additional explanations on the blog of another pixel artist : http://2dwillneverdie.com/tutorial/instant-pixel-art-backgrounds-with-the-dan-fessler-method/
That tutorial does not describe exactly the same technique as Dan Fessler (it's more restrictive) but it helps understanding what Dan Fessler is talking about when he plays around with adjustment layers. It makes it easier.

[stability]

Perhaps it is foolish to think you can impose peace with bombs or drones or mercenaries, but I think it's also foolish to think that fanatical thugs slaughtering their way across half the world will be defeated without any armed fighting, just by...

I explained exactly how. Fell free not to listen. Fanaticals are stopped by stability and economic heatlh. The exact opposite of military interventions. They're incompatible. They don't mix. At all. Ever.

[Pirates]

I watched several videos of the "Pirates!" system and it really looks like it sucks. It looks very clunky and "inaccurate", and seems to have a boring pace.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yomPFU-azRI

I think the Prince of Persia 2 system, for example, is much more thrilling : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCRCmqTGhjI  ..And thinking about it, it's actually very similar to the one in Mafia II...

I am a Gimper. Have you guys found anything about if and how I can replicate this method there?

Does Gimp have transformation layers? If not, then you can't do it.

We can all dream of Utopia...

Are you kidding me? I didn't write "I want everyone to be friends, and all wars to stop". Instead I wrote a very accurate, practical roadmap, that requires a strong political stand on a handful of  critical topics.

Facedirection is meant to change the character loop, to select one of the existing loops and set up for an animation. Not meant to create loops.

At first I read the same as you (missing loops), but all he said is that he did create those loops, by mirroring the other ones.

Quick analysis: I suspect that there are equal chances that this is caused by a bug or by a human mistake while handling the views.
Could you upload your poject to Dropbox or any other hosting site, so that we can have a look? (strip it from any secret contents if you want, first)

The issue seems to be fixed! (I compiled 3.4.6 alpha, using the No Native project and copying AGS.Native.dll over from my very own 3.4.0.6, and using VS2010 professional) Good job on this one.

side note: I tried again my 3.4.0.6 and the brief blinking that used to happen every second when the cursor was not moving (which you don't experience), did not happen today. So maybe there's a second (more rare) issue, but eh, who cares? The annoying one is gone!

I've been re-reading this random conversation in French in the 2002 posts, there I some gems I can't even. So much confusion and bad grammar!

What I would like to see is France, the US and the UK to stop being in the top 5 arms dealers in the world.
What I would like to see is Saudi Arabia to stop being the #1 customer of France in the weapons business.
What I would like to see is France to stop bombing random Arab countries (continuing on the US/british trend). We've already been at war with Mali, Syria, Lybia and Afghanistan.
What I would like to see is NATO (including France) blocking financial circuits (straight from the stock exchange into Daesh's pockets, transitting through Qatar), instead of immediately choosing military solutions to please each country's military-industrial lobby (which is another way to say: "to please the stock holders").
What I would like to see is people to stop agreeing on the vague "we need more security" statement, without realizing that it only means "we will install more spys in your cell phones and more access to your private life" and certainly does not mean: "We will unlock sufficent funds for the police, the justice and more genrally the public service to work properly and stop being a pile of arbitrary, hasty and stress-inducing decisions".

I would like to see all this.

valter, are you using Windows Remote Desktop? Just checking that lead.