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Hey. bicilotti.

Bloody hell. "The Hoaxbunnies". They sound cool too.
Yet another band to add to my collection. LOL.

Hey Ben304.

Shit. "Within Temptation" sounds great!!
I just did a "youtube" search of them and yes, yeS, yES, YES. I LIKE.

That's another band to add to my collection.
I love the song "Angels". Can you tell me what album that is from please?

Jay.

Ben304.

Don't get me wrong. I bought "Dark Passions Play" and thought it was fantastic.
I also bought "Nightwish- Highest hopes- The Best Of Nightwish" and damn!!
Even more fantastic. 

Oh. Another cd I bought was "Tobias Sammet's - Avantasia". It was advertised inside of "Dark passions Play".
Tobias is the front man of a band called "Edguy" but he has a second project known as "Avantasia".
It's good. I think so anyway.

Jay.

Hi Peeps.

I know I have not posted for a while. I have been suffering from depression.
Maybe some of my few posts, lately, have shown this. If they have then I am sorry.

Anyway. I want to ask if anyone here is a fan of "Nightwish"?
I came across them a few weeks ago and, it has to be said, I love them.
However I must say that I preferred "Tarja Turunen" on lead vocals over "Anette Olson" especially on live performances.

What do you think?

Jay. 

Hi All.

First I would like to appologise if I have seemed a bit negative lately in other posts. A fit of depression overtook me. Please forgive me.

Anyway how has the snow affected you all.
I can't help but snigger at how England always makes a complete drama out of a thin layer of snow.
Everything always comes to a complete halt when there are countries that get snow almost constantly and still seem to function.

My question is - What country are you from and how do you deal with snow.
Is it a complete catastrophie or do you continue, public transport included, to function normaly.

Just wondering.
Jay.

I do not really care if the world ends for us in 2012, 2019 or 40,000.

I do not want the Earth to explode either.

I would like life to continue on this fantastic globe after we have been eradicated.
We have f****d it up enough. Give it time to heal from the s**t we have put it through and hopefully
a species will inherit a world that was once as beautiful as when we first appeared.
Also I hope it is populated by a species that disserve to be here.

Personaly I am looking forward to 2012.
You know when the earth ends and we all get sucked off.......... into outer space!!

That's gonna be one hell of a party and one that, frankly, I look forward too.
I hope my digital camera has enough charge to take a few pics!! 

Thanks StrangeVisitor for the wiki links.
However LUniqueDan was correct. I did only want to talk about those old tv shows.

Anyway. LUniqueDan the only show that I can think of that nearly matches what you said was a show
called "Rent a Ghost". Although this was not set in a mansion.
It did have a wierd historical character though called "Mr Claypole" who was a court jester. There was also a woman who used
to dissapear when she sneezed, called "Miss Popoff".
Other characters were a pantomime horse and a witch called "Mc Witch".
They all worked for mr and Mrs "Meeker" who they lived with.

Hope this is the show you're talking about. I can't think of any other around that time.

Jay.

Hi all.

Got into a conversation the other day about a tv program I remember called Kinvig (I think).
It was about a shop keeper who had a female alien land in his back yard. (as far as I remember).

I was just wondering if anyone else remembers this show. I can't think how it ended, even if it did. I don't think it was very popular.

Thanks.
Jay.

Ooh! Another one was "Saphire and Steel". I always remember the one at the ghostly train station. But there was another one where they were
trapped in a room with pillows that turned into big birds and attacked them. Does anyone remember that one?
Saphire was Joanna Lumley (spelled wrongly I suspect) and Steel was (?). I think it was the guy from "Man from uncle" but I can't remember his name.

Hello. And a happy new year to you all.

Sorry I have not been in touch (for those people who know me).

I have had catastrophic problems with my old comp and have been trying to get to know a new comp, that has an attitude problem.
The only part that survived from my old comp was my hard drive, Thankfully, and am now trying to retrieve data from CD backup and HD.
Another prob is that my working hours have changed and so I now have to work my creative mind around them. :

For all of those people that have helped me in the past such as InCreator, Khris MUC, Gillbot and many others. Thankyou. There are many others but
you all know who you are.

Have a very happy new year.
Love (In a masculine sort of way)

Or if you are a Woman then just lots of Love (Oh yeah)!!
Jay xxx

Whoops!!  Have I offended anyone?  If so then I am sorry. I was only trying to have a laugh. I don't get to have many.

I must agree with Tombom.
I was lucky enough to start my AGS experience with 2.72.
I was amazed at the ease of use and began making tiny (Test) games to help me understand the engine.
One of the things that made it so easy was the "Interaction editor".
It made me, personally, want to learn scripting so I could get more out of this fantastic engine.

I had tried so many different "game making" programs and gave up with them all, but not with AGS.
However, in saying that I'm not sure if I would have bothered with AGS if I had started with version 3.
To a beginner it must look rather daunting.
Please don't get me wrong, I like 3 but this is only cos I understand how things work more now since using 2.72 (which I still am using).

Jay.

Hi all.

OK. Lets start this by saying that I have endured many injuries in the past.

I have broken my, arm, ribbs, knuckles (more than once) and a hip bone (that I didn't break but appeared through my skin, that was torn open revealing the offending bone).

Strangely enough none of these caused me much pain.

However. Two months ago. A filling came out of my tooth. I left it for a while cos I have a fear of dentists and it didn't seem to be bothering me much....

But then.

It became infected. I have never felt pain like it!!

I am happy to say that my tooth was saved. I am no longer in pain. And I no longer have a fear of dentists.

Please share your injuries HERE.

Love and best wishes to you all.
Jay.

Oh. Also forgot to mention the removal of in-growing toenails. That hurts. Well it doesn't hurt. Just don't watch. If you watch then it hurts!!

Hi Khris.

Once again thanks for the quick reply. I will try what you have suggested (when I have the time) and let you know how things went.
I will post the outcome here or PM you.

Thanks.
Jay.

P.s. If you go to my site again. You will notice it has changed a bit. However the screenshots need to be changed as my game (the first game I ever created with AGS) has now become my Nemesis.
I am still working on my second game as well. You might get to play them someday, If the Atom project doesn't kill us all first!!

Hi all.
I hope everyone is well.

Firstly, as always, I am using AGS 2.72.

I have created dialog between my character and an NPC and all works fine. I have also done this many times before.

Now for my question.
If you talk to an NPC and the topic branches off into another set of question and you select "Goodbye".
The next time you speak to the same character is there a way of picking up the conversation where you left off without going all through the same dialog again.

I have looked through the manual and searched for answers but to no avail.
It's not a huge problem as all is going well. It's just something that may make things seem more fluid within my game.

Any help would be most appreciated.

Thanks.
Jay.

Hi Khris. Old pall of mine.

Of course I didn't. I did it the other way around. :
I read that line in the manual and thought "You must have to set the channel before the sound plays".
As you already know. it works fine now.

However I had to change my sound fx to channel 4 as it made my footstep sound cut out.
I didn't have to assign a channel to the footsteps cos I placed them within the character view.
I assume that AGS must have used channel 3 automaticaly then.
Would you agree?

Thanks for your help Khris.
Jay.

Hi Guys.

Firstly I am using AGS 2.72.
I have read the manual and searched for my answer but have found nothing that helps.

I have a sound effect that I am trying to play on channel 3. There are no other sounds on channel three cos I left it open specially for this sound.
The effect is to loud and I have tried everything I can think of to adjust the volume. Nothing works.
I have no problem with adjusting ambient volume. That's simple.

things I have tried from the manual are not working (probably me doin' something wrong) or changes the overall volume of the entire game. 
I would be most grateful if someone could help me with this silly and annoying problem.

Thanks.
Jay.

Hi Faith.

Yeah. Sorry about that. You're absolutely right. You can't disable the "This is the main character" in views.

I never played Hugo and didn't know it was keys only. :

In that case go with Makeout Patrols Variable thing.

Sorry I couldn't help.
Jay.

Hey. Just had another thought. You could remove the walkable area using-  RemoveWalkableArea( -whatever number the area is- );
after your change view script.

Hi Faith.

I'm not totaly sure about this. Have you tried unchecking the "this is the player character" box on your death view?

Either that or dissable the "Walkto" icon. You won't be able to walk anywhere then. I think the script for this is
mouse.DisableMode(eModeWalkto);

To enable the icon again type- mouse.EnableMode(eModeWalkto);

However you will still be able to look, talk and interact unless you also dissable them in the same way.

I hope I have been of some help to you.

Jay.

Oh. I forgot to ask what version of AGS you are using. I use 2.72. If you are using 3.0 then the scripting may be different. I don't know.

Hi.

At 17 I went through a time of being an asshole too.
Now I look back and think to myself "God you were an asshole".

In time though I got out of this bad patch and became my normal self.
I think it must be something that we all go through.
I Hope things work out for you.

Jay.

Yet again.

Thanks Khris.

What would I do without your knowledge.

Let it be known that when my game is finally finished your name will be on the credits numerous times.
Don't hold your breath though as I keep having new ideas that just keeps making my game harder to make.
I think for my next one I should maybe write a story rather than just make it up as I go....What do you think?

Thanks. Jay.