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No offence to these games, but suddenly, the numbers for some games are more than 10x usual:

Most popular last week:
Shifter's Box - Outside In
(1528 downloads)
A Tale of Two Kingdoms
(985 downloads)
The Book of Spells
(817 downloads)
The Glorious Realm of Thendor
(567 downloads)
The Long Trip
(561 downloads)

CJ, any ideas?

[pointers]

No, but you can create pointers to objects dynamically.

Well yes, it's not SO hard to make BUT I would need to have some sort of a source code or manual for making AGS plugins (if it supports them anyway). I need to know what kind of input it requires

http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/accomplug.htm

Hmmm, my brain must not have been working when I read it. 

Oh! The manual says that you can't make dynamic arrays of managed types...

Nope!

It's a shame that you can't generate dynamic arrays of Dynamic Sprite pointers, as that's what I'd prefer (or what might be best was if all sprite numbers inside AGS were actually pointers so you could set the pointer to the dynamic sprite so that it would still have a global reference and not need to worry about it getting garbage-collected.)

Following on from the discussion in this thread I've created a module that you can use to scale all the sprites for a character, or to apply various other "distortions" to the sprites instead.

Needs: AGS 3.1.2 (but might work with earlier ones from 3.0 on, try it and see!)

Documentation
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I've just created a module that can resize the sprites of a character's views on the fly. I think this would be what you want. It does various other "distortions" too, and is the DistortChar module. I'll make a new thread for the module up soon...

Do it in python or ironpython or somethign!

Updated and v1.1 uploaded to the same place... have a try as I've not tested it much!

When worrying about distances, its usually faster to square the constant you're comparing against than get the root of the square on the hypotenuse...

Well, here's a bit of fun:

If you post some of your animated GIFs in the critics lounge, they may be able to suggest ways in which you could reduce the size.

Make it like my walkcycle generator, but better

my favourties:

Onion skinning for animation

Layers

Direct export of animated GIFs

It's quite easy to set up your own default room template that has these events added for all new rooms that you create... in fact, I've just documented this process on my blog!

Here's my picture of a wight:



Sorry...  : 

[this]

Whtas the difference between writeprotected and readonly?

Read only is read only: it really only applies to internal AGS values (i.e. AGS engine itself can change them but the scripter can't)

Writeprotected variables can only be modified via the this pointer, i.e. by non-static methods.

What's the diference between function and void? // Can function return any value?

function is an alias for "int". void returns nothing, function returns ints.

Yeah I know about the edge variables.  They don't work if I have say, a top exit halfway down the screen, such as a door in a facing wall, if there are items on that wall I want to look at.

Code: ags

if (Hotspot.GetAtScreenXY(mouse.x, mouse.y)!=null) {
   // Do hotspot stuff
} else if (mouse.y<Room.TopEdge) {
  // Do top edge stuff
}

covers that scenario...

You know that there are Room.LeftEdge, Room.RightEdge, etc. variables built-in to AGS, right?

This code might be useful to those who have irregular shaped exits, though. Why not turn it into a module?

CJ usually doesn't prioritise suggestions that can be implemented easily in script code, anyway as the customizability that most developers want means they'd have to recode it manually anyway...

There's also the Moduel writing guide in the Tech Archive forum...