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So, I made a little 1 minute video of the problem I have here :

https://youtu.be/5ZuKHngt6w0

Well maybe there just isn't a solution for this problem and I have to find a workaround.
And I have been searching around, a lot, since my first post but I must be searching the wrong way... and also, I did come across some scripting but yeah, I'm a noob and reverse engineering didn't work :p

if you have a solution for all these problems in my intro room, let me know.

Otherwise, thank you for reading! 

PS.: right now, I'll try something with two rooms, one just for the RestoreGame GUI with a button to go back to the main menu, let's see how that goes 

Aaaahhh okayyyy !! 

Thank you so much for your replies !! 

Hi,

This is a suggestion:

I've been in this community for a moment 16 years ago and again, it's amazing how you guys are still rocking and rolling (you're that amazing immortal and invincible internet community paradox, believe me I've been on the web for 30 years and I've seen rises and falls, but not you)

BUT also because of that the thing is that if I search the forums, I can have as first result a post from like 2005 and earlier, which sometimes is still relevant, but mostly not.

Do you think It's possible to make a "latest threads" or something filter? to have the most recent posts show first based on the search?

I'm afraid of dusting off old threads while there are more recent posts about any of my searches, see?

Rik

So I created my custom GUI and to test it I created a Game Load  button.

In the "Events" Tab I added the "btnLoad_OnClick" line in OnClick (I just copy/pasted that)

Now, in-game, on my intro screen, I click on my Load button and the RestoreGame GUI appears. But if I click to close it, it does close but my custom GUI is vanished.
AND also, I can now change the actions with the right click (the mouse icon I set is no more blocked) AND the Icon Bar who was set to invisible is now visible.

I noticed in the "btnLoad_OnClick" script the line : close_owning_gui(control);
So I duplicated it (btnLoad2) and removed the line but yeah, now my GUI is always visible and I can't click anywhere so I undid that after an ALT+F4

Any idea? Thanks!! 

Just in case, here the script in "room_load" :

Code: ags

function room_Load()
{
player.Transparency = 100;
//PlayVideo("AGSLogo01.ogv", eVideoSkipEscKey, 1);
//PlayVideo("EONIRIALogo01.ogv",eVideoSkipEscKey, 1);
//start_chan = aIntro01.Play();
//start_chan.Volume = 100;
gIconbar.Visible = false;
gStatusline.Visible = false;
mouse.ChangeModeGraphic(mouse.Mode, 2061);
gGui1.Visible = true;
}

OMG nothing has changed haha 
You really are that unique community and I'm so proud and humbled to be part of it!

So! I need to say this one.

Back in 2004 I made my very first AGS game and I had great support during development and even some people who took their time to test it before release.
It was the first episode but it never got further because of life back then.

16 years and a lot of Life adventures later, I'm back wanting to make a game again, after exploring a lot of other worlds I always had the AGS software and community in some place in my head.
So yeah, I have no more ambition anymore other than having fun working on a game and hoping you'll have fun playing it one day. I have a full time job, a wife, and side jobs in movie editing.

But there are those two things that made me go like "Wow" right now :

This is still very much a thing after 16 years (for me) and may I say with all my experiences and adventures that it is absolutely astonishing and inspiring as a human. I've seen softwares and their communities rise and fall, but yet here you are AGS, defying everything including the odds. And time.
I came back and my first post was a selfish question of me for my game, and there you were, answering and helping faster than I got my burger last time.

And then, just out of the blue, I googled the name of my game I released back in 2004... and I found it! In that one thing called the AGS archives! And as a downloadable file stored on the web.
Oh boy, it's so old I have to reinstall it every time I want to play with it just to have the music and the sounds... and did I got stuck in my own puzzles I created back then!

So yeah, you all, the AGS community are one of a kind you maybe don't even realize but I say to you for what it's worth after all my journeys : You are Magic.
And you, Chris Jones, made it all happen.
And you people who stepped in to make it still alive in 2020, thank you.

Thank you all   


Rik

Thanks so much for the replies guys, it helped me a lot!

So the flags thing does work, as far as playing game sounds goes?
I'm pretty sure it's either/or with the avi sound, unfortunately - but like I said, I've got no experience with it so hopefully there's a way round it. If not, your method sounds like the best compromise.

Yup, the flags thing works: When the movie plays all of the game sounds/tracks continue playing. 

Rik

Or have you tried that, and it didn't work? (I haven't used PlayVideo in v3+, so it might not be as clear cut as the manual makes it seem...)

Damn I'm sorry...    You know, the funny thing is I did read that passage... but somehow... my brain didn't print it...  so many things to learn, to look after, to remember... right now I'm totally lost lol... phew... :

Anyway, thanks a lot for the info!

I guess... we can't play both at the same time?...like having the music from the game and also the FX sounds from the movie... ...?

(Right now I use a sound file -extracted from the movie- to start when the movie starts).

Rik

Hello, here I am again... well continuing to learn things... The possibilities are amazing and I just LOVE the very clear debug mode that helped me a whole lot of (hard) times!  
Now, I just have this little question, didn't find an answer...:

Can I do something so that the room's music continues to play even if I start to play a movie?
...
'cause the movie is cutting the music...

Thanks a lot!

Rik

Wow yay thanks a lot! I made it work correctly with the global variable panel!

Thanks a lot for your time, I made more progress in the last few hours than in the last days lol ! You all are in the game credits already. 

Ok... still so much to learn... arr heh!

Thanks again!

Rik

Thank you very much guys! Had to think a little what you were talking about, but I got it 
I was like "Damn Mr Matti don't just tell me what I have to type, tell me also where!" but after testing some things I found it.

So now I have this in the globalscript:

int Health = 10;
export Health;

function repeatedly_execute_always()
{
Label6.Text = String.Format("%d", Health);
}

And this in room 1 and 2:

import int Health;

function room_Load()
{
Health +=1;
}

So every time I enter one of these rooms, I get + 1 health and it's shown where I want! 

Now one last little question about this:

- Is there a way to avoid typing "import int Health;" in every single room? I've been trying some things, not working, and you cannot import in a function.
Any tips?

Thanks a lot for your help, It's been most productive!

Rik

Hello,

I downloaded AGS, started with the tutorials and manual, so you know that if I bother you guys with my questions, it's because I've been searching amongst the forums,manual,tutorials I could find without finding an answer to my problems.
I'm not much of a scripting guy, I think I get the "logic" of it, I understand "if","else" and other stuff so far, but there are a lot of things that my mind don't really get... right now  :

When I read the forums, you guys explain things to one another as if everyone knows what it is all about, but for me it's like reading a foreign language.. 

The other thing is that many forum topics and other scripting tutorials seem to be outdated due to the new version, our with a broken link, also...

So I don't want to take too much of your time; I know you have other things to do... I just need a little (clear) push here and there, and I'll sort the rest out myself. 
I'll keep all my annoying question in this topic.
Please keep in mind I'm not a scripter.. yet... so please use a language I understand 

Well here goes my first little problem:

1/  - I create a global variable named "health" as "int" and give it "10" points.
     - In the room, I put "Health +=1;" and I get "Parse error unexpected 'Health'"
     - So I try "import Health;" and I get "Expected variable or function after import, not health"
     - So I try "import int Health;" and I get "Variable 'Health' is already defined"

2/ - I want this variable to be shown in the GUI. Believe me I've been searching and testing around for hours.
    - I tried text boxes, labels, globalints and whatever , tried to understand how the @score@ can work if it's not looking for a variable names score,
      wich I can find nowhere, I thought @variable@ would just display the value of that variable in the gui ...?
    - The only thing I found was to create a button that, when you click on it, would display that variable, but that's not what I want.

Well, any help would be greatly appreciated and thanks in advance for your precious time!

Rik