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Hello, guys!

I'm Nikola, from Bulgaria, currently a CS student, age 23, wannabe game designer

Learned about AGS a couple of months ago, love the idea, love the realization and the best thing of all is the living and kicking comunity

Kinda gives me the warm feeling that games are still more than next-gen shooters, racers and mmorpgs  

Both of you 

Wanted to avoid me flooding , sorry if I made a mistake

Thanks a lot to everybody, will post more about the game when I have something significant to show 

You guys are awesome, thanks for all the replies!

So quick, I'm in enthusiastic mode, back to work

dkh, I sent you a PM, thanks a lot!

Implementing my own pathfinder is not really an option - I need efficiency and my sorted queue will suck lots of time

No, no, I expressed myself in a wrong way. I suffer from a bad case of newbieness so I doubt my own algorithmic skills, not AGS efficiency

dkh, I reallize that I am getting really impudent here but since you've done that before, would it be a problem to post a fragment about how would A* look in AGS ?

Implementing my own pathfinder is not really an option - I need efficiency and my sorted queue will suck lots of time

About the project:

I'd like to make a war between 2 tribes of entities - about 400 purple and orange dots. They gather food and avoid fires and dig tunnels.

It is intended as a bit of scientific work about abstract evolution and you (player) as an active element in it.

AGS seemed like a natural choice - inventories, dialogues, GUIs, events, all the boring stuff already implemented.

Oh well, I can't have everything

Edit: my bad, sorry, I forgot to thank you for the quick reply !!! Keep up the cool projects!

Hello

Greetings:
I am relatively new to AGS and totally new to the forums. So let me first express my awe to the great amount of work put into this project and comunity  :o

Now what I want to achieve:
* a field of squares, where EACH square is walkable
* many characters at the same time on the field
* every square can contain resource that caracters want to collect, dangers that will hurt the characters a little bit, or none
* every square can be solid
* solid squares are walkable, just take more time to dig through it and make the square normal
* initially all squares are solid (characters dig tunnels like rats)
* each character has parameters about how inclined he is to dig or let himself get hurt by a danger in expense for a shorter path

Problem:
As of this writing I didn't find any info on how to set the heuristics of the A* when the sorted queue is expanded. I want to add to the cost of each node also its cost in contents (resource, danger or normal) and its cost in speed (normal or must_dig) for that particular character.

Question:
Could you please forward me to a solution/module/plugin that can help me?

Disclaimer:
The task I am currently after is the core feature of an action-adventure game I am developing. Dropping it will practically make the whole project redundant   :'(

So it would be of great help to know if it is even possible to do in AGS?

PP: sorry if this question is already cleared elsewhere, tried my best to read everything about AGS pathfinding  
PPP: sorry that my first post is a question rather than some help