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here is another, ice stuff

i still don't know how to make good cliffs/rocks... :'(

Soldiers are also trained to carry guns into the field. He shoud have been walking around the end base with his gun out, if you think about it.

Which brings me onto this: why would do what that scientist says? He's a big wide soldier. He should have just walked over to the gun and picked it up, and told the scientist to sod off.

not everything is solved with guns, but you still have 3d shooters for this kind of problem

He is an soldier, they are trained to stay calm , you must be carefull, if you start runing around there is greater possibility for others to catch you/kill you. When soldiers loose their friend they dont freak out and start to run all over (yes some do, but maybe ordinary soldiers, not trained marines). And how would he shoot anybody, if he doesn't have a gun.

I don't understand, charater should walk faster because of that doctor and monster he saw ?? What, should he run all the time ? How would you react, every time something happens he says his taughts..

When he sees the doctor, he says "...Did i just saw someone jumping off that cliff... What is happening in this base." or something similliar, so what do you think he should start runing around. Rush into the secret base so the guard will shoot him. I think the main thing is to stay calm.Tell me in which adventure game did you se main character start runing (or walking faster) when something bad happend ? For example when in Fate of Atlantis, the island started to fall apart (walls crack...), Indiana Jones did not run, but walk...

I think you should back up things you are saying...   

No i don't mind, be my guest.. this tutorial is meant to be public, you can use it where ever do you want....

Ok here it goes


First: Draw a any shape you like (stone come in all different shapes ), and fill it with a gray or little yellow color.


Second: I use PSP 9, because the "lighten and darken " effect are much easier to make (in comparisson to PSP 7) i don't know for Photoshop, i don't use it.
        Select Lighten/Darken tool, add size to 1 and opacity to 35 (you can use higher opacity too).
        In my picture I will lighten the right side and darken the left one. First select your shape with magic wand tool, so you won't effect the white background or make rock as a layer and lock it. 
        Select lighten/darken brush and start, move to the top of the rock and hold mouse button     down, and start making zig-zags towards downside (lighten) and same for the left side (darken).


Use some lighten brush on the left side to and viceversa (you can change opacity here to apply more or less dark/light. You darken the bottom of the rock and all around it, because rock are normaly closer to the humans in the center (or at least my is ) and thats why it is brighter in the middle and darker on the sides.


You can now rise the opacity to about 50, and go trought all areas again. I aplied more light on some parts of the rock, it all depends from where the lightning comes. (my comes from right to left as the black pointer shows).



Ok when you are done with that, use the SOFTEN BRUSH, size 2 and opacity 20. Soften whole rock.



You can darken the sides of the rock so it look like it is more round. Use darken tool, size 3-4 and opacity 40 or 50.


I added black background and darken the rocks sides even more. You can use a SHARPEN tool in the some parts of the rock too make it look more "rocky" (size 10, opacity about 30)...


Woila, i really hope this makes any sense

This is an excellent AGS game in my opinion.  Sure, the plot gets convoluted near the end, but that is my only complaint.  I thought the graphics were great.  Sound and music awesome, the intro was great too!  Really an amazing effort.  I highly encourage your group to begin work on your next game right now! 

hey thanks, actually it is not a group, i was alone

hey, tnx, well i don't think next one will be ready soon, i dont have any story elements .... yet

heey some real criticism, you really got into this

ok..As first, i must say, that this is my first game, i was experimenting few things, yes and lot of parts were made up as i was going along.
SOME SPOILERS ALERT !!!
About circuit box, you normaly destroy or disable electronic part by making a short circuit, so there is no possible way to find out what it will do, but as you read a meesage board you found out that local wireing must have a bug, that opens the lab doors... about nazis, i thought it was credible, why not, Hitler attacked rest of the world, he gain his power with speechses , if you look some documentaries you can see that his rise to power was incredible, he almost achived what no man ever dreamed before, like some invisible force drove him, he was phenomena. So i though he will be right person to use. And character got the command of the army, because he knew humans best, he was in human army. Yes there are some things i forgot to mentioned, that he was in the army before he became a spy in the earth, and all aliens knew who he is....

it doesn't take than much time, maybe 3 - 4 hours (i didn't make it all at oence), rock effect as follows: i use PSP 9, because i don't think you can do the same thing with psp7 and i dont know for photoshop neither. You choose a color of the roc, lets say gray, make a new layer and draw an object with only one color and fill it wiht paint (same gray one) now selec lighten/darken brush, SIZE -1 , OPACITY- 30 or 40. Now you must imagine how the light will be (where the rock is darker, and where lighter). Then you use left mouse click to (lighten) and start moving mouse horizontaly and slowly move down (or up, if you started from the bottom). You use right click for darkening the rock.
I will try to add some step by step screens later.

Spoiler

you can get information about the curcuit box in the message board in the room where the bench is, you will se a white board next to the TOILET doors, you need to look it 3 times. By thw way, grenade is not  necessarily to complete the game, but it gives you the 3rd choice of ending..

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ok i fix it, this should be final one, except the fire, which i will add later...

yes, doors are nice that way...

yes, i will add torches later, i draw it with pain shop pro 9

Does it look alright, what would you add ?

http://users.volja.net/zagar41/klemen/cave.gif

Spoiler

You must find a lens and use it on the microscope, you will get the code, when you get to the reinforced doors, he will use the code , the he will said that he needs fingerprints -- go back..... you will see........... LENS IS in second screen in the crack...

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Spoiler

No, coin and the gun and memo are usseles object in game, but you may missed something, first you can open the shaft in the lab corridor (far right in the ice planet) and enter it, you will observe some speech from the doctor and befor that in the earth in laboratory 1, you can walk far left to the glass window and observe what happens and you can talk with doctor Monroe about that, there is a little difference when you put that black doctor to sleep with enjection. yellow fluid is virus, you will get different speech when you use it on that doctor, and later , general says 1 sentance more about what you ve done with the doctor, blue fluid only put s him to sleep....

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Spoiler

Never hurts to have more diaries

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hmm i don't know about that doors, maybe i forgot to add a variable, must be the same with diary sorry,

Bug: One time a testd again, 2 daysw ago, when i used an object on any hotspot, i got proper answer, but than cursor changed into some different pictuer, that shouldn't be a cursor picture... but that happend only once...
oh.. and when you type username and password in game, you must use ENTER, NOT OK button, acctualy my mistake..

BTW: There are 3 different easter eggs in game 8) and 3 different endings (3rd one is accesible of you pick one item...)

Which two did you find Ieremiou ?

thats great, but i tried , and still doesnt work.. strange (i tried with Mozzila and IE)...


NEW: yep it is working now...