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Even when Sherlock Holmes (first screen) was released I thought: wow, that's blurry.

Looking at it makes me feel like having an eye cataract

On the other hand, the second one suffers from a bad colour choice and black outline. So if I had to choose between these two, I'd go with number one.

But I'm afraid I'm still a scumm fanboy

--edit: I've just seen that you've already written some words about the colours as well. Maybe I add a note:

I don't like the colours, because it looks like the artist had trouble with the 8-bit colour limitations.. eg the gramophone's funnel could look way better.

Happy Birthday, Tzachs!!

I hope you get the soccer game done before this world cup's finale

Easy3D can achive quite similar effects, just without the sphere...
(but less wobbly)

http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php?topic=26130.0

Chickislav, happy Birthday!

AGS works great with wine, so could try Winebottler for Mac
http://winebottler.kronenberg.org/

But there is no recent native port.

Awesome VWG!

This just needs a chorus to be perfect

@Bulbapuck: These are the threads that keeps this place so entertaining

[Dear wishing well, I want break points in dialog scripts]

hehe, I've just read this thread so many times in the past, I thought I could get around with it this time

<offtopic> Why has the issue tracker been closed? It would make a decent job as a wish list tracker </offtopic>

And to make my reply not completely pointless:

Dear wishing well, I want break points in dialog scripts
(which of course is also a re-request)

A few minor requests of mine, I hope I don't re-request too much

- change hotspot names at runtime
- set /change custom properties at runtime
- folders for dialogs and characters in the editor
- *bump* refresh custom dialog surfaces

And of I course I second all the calls for full alpha channels on surfaces.

yep - that trick might be too cheap for the CIA, but at least I made you wonder

Happy Birthday Mr Simon!  8)

Argh, thanks for the reminder... just need to finish a few before I can vote.

Awsome... I've played those a lot back then.
Rockstar Ate My Hamster ftw

Right now all the gray screens put me off a little, but I'm sure AC will take care of that

Good luck with it!

I have of course no idea what causing this, but this line makes me think.

The process cannot access the file 'C:\AGS\sandbox\GlobalScript.asc' because it is being used by another process.

You can try to take a look which programm is still accessing the file with this tool:
http://download.sysinternals.com/Files/ProcessMonitor.zip

Oh I see, you've got a point here.

For the demo game I thought it's a good idea to give  fonts names like eFontSpace and also eFontNormal.

But I see that is  a bit awkward if you import the module in one of your own projects.
Yeah, maybe I should change that.

Sometimes
http://ags-ssh.blogspot.com/2009/11/while-my-guitar-gently-bleeps.html

I use a midi for timing the notes and check the ogg position to see if they are still in sync.

Nope, Wyz idea is wicked
Though I'd suggest that you use an ogg with the directx hardware mixer. This should be most accurate.

- stole Brentimous' leg
- forgot to steal Ben's arm
- added more contrast to your colours
- different haircut and ears
- fixed some of the anatomic problems

edit: added ProgZmax' golden 6 1/2 head rule for women

No worries

You can safely rename eFontNormal to eFontFont0. It's just the name of the default font being used to draw text.


Simple use search and replace in CustomDialogGui.asc and get rid of the 'wrong' name.

hmm... what if you set the gamespeed to 60 and add a counter. Then you could check if it really took 1 second for the counter to reach 60.

For everything else, I suppose rawtime needs to support microseconds

Oh, that's easy. You can either draw on a button or on the GUI background itself.

Here's an example to do it without buttons:

Code: ags

  sprForeground = DynamicSprite.Create(System.ScreenWidth, System.ScreenHeight, true);

  gForeground.BackgroundGraphic = sprForeground.Graphic;

Now you can draw on that surface as long as you like

Code: ags

DrawingSurface *surface = sprForeground.GetDrawingSurface();

surface.DrawImage(.........);
surface.Release();

Just keep in mind that you must not delete the sprite as long as it's assigned to the GUI Background.


edit: typo in the second code block