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I've found another alpha transparency / magic pink issue

It seems like CopyTransparencyMask doesn't ignore magic pink anymore (it did in 3.3)


The raster sprite is a 32bit png with an alpha channel, the portrait is a 32bit import from a gif. In AGS 3.3 I could happily merge those two, but in 3.4 the magic pink shines through.

Code: ags

  // Sprite 6 is the raster png
  // Sprite 7 is the portrait gif
  DynamicSprite *TileRaster = DynamicSprite.CreateFromExistingSprite(6, true);
  TileRaster.Crop(0, 0, 37, 49);
  
  DrawingSurface *roomSurface = Room.GetDrawingSurfaceForBackground();
  
  DynamicSprite *temp_fg = DynamicSprite.CreateFromExistingSprite(7,true);
  temp_fg.CopyTransparencyMask(TileRaster.Graphic);
  roomSurface.DrawImage(10, 20, 7, 0);
  roomSurface.DrawImage(50, 20, temp_fg.Graphic, 0);
  roomSurface.DrawImage(100, 20, 6, 0);
  roomSurface.Release();

oh sorry, I didn't want to sound malicious. Also without sound, the motivation is high to finish this myself - now that I've seen that it's possible

Thank you so much! Now I can enjoy the visuals without the pain of mastering the "controls"

So beautiful, yet so unplayable for me

But yay, I managed to reach the first boss and I don't feel like giving up yet.


..edit: btw. the videos are without sound, is that intended?

Wow, it looks and sounds amazing. Yet again a terrific effort for one month.

I really want this to be entertaining, but unfortunately I struggle a lot with the controls... (this would be soooo much easier with classic controls) Anyway I beat the first two levels, yay

Great idea and video! Happy new year, everyone

Hey everyone,
Dualnames made me make this hourgame And since nobody except Cuiki every played it, I thought I'd share it with all of you!

http://shatten.sonores.de/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/xmashour.zip
You have 30 seconds to fetch as many presents as you can get.
* Move in 4 - yes, F_O_U_R breathtaking directions
* be greedy
* train your reflexes
* no DLC, no ingame purchases

You need the Stella Emulator (or a real VCS 2600) to run it:
http://stella.sourceforge.net/downloads.php

Oh - and this is my first Atari game ever, it's a bit .. err. rough around the edges
Merry XMAS from GMT+1

Hooray, merry Christmas to you too

Yep. In Winsetup you chose the language and GUI changes the icons according to what you setup in the translation file.

For example your english translation file needs to contain these lines.

GUI_LANGUAGE
EN

I suppose you are using the bundled 9Verb template?

To switch the language in a .trs translation file, tell your translators to look out for the line.

GUI_LANGUAGE
Now simply translate that line with DE, EN, ES, FR or PT to set the GUI to the corresponding language.

You can see how it's done in the globalscript's game_start function.

I'm at 526k pure script, split into 34 modules
The game still runs great on an older Atom CPU.
Don't worry about speed, seriously

sorry, it seems like I misunderstood what you wanted.
I don't think it's possible to change the frame, once AGS automatically changes the view. But I'm not 100% sure.

A way I can think of is to use two characters as one. One "character" is the body and the other "character" only shows the head and follows the body-character exactly.

From time to time you should utilize the search function
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/forums/index.php?topic=39407.msg636496285#msg636496285

But you have to admit that now all topics are being shown

This module can provide scrolling dialogs, but it takes some time to get used to it.
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/forums/index.php?topic=36313.0

I'm also using a scumm style scrolling dialog GUI in AeroNuts, which has been open-sourced.

For this you need to activate "Run game loops while dialog options are displayed". You'll find it in General Settings.

Then you need to add the function repeatedly_execute_always() manually to the script and add those cloud moving lines there

Code: ags

function repeatedly_execute_always() 
{
    if (IsTimerExpired(4)) {
        ocloud.X=ocloud.X - 1;
        SetTimer(4, 20);
    }

    if (IsTimerExpired(5)) {
        ocloud1.X=ocloud1.X - 1;
        SetTimer(5, 20);
    }
}

Have you tried this?

Code: ags

player.ChangeView(THEVIEW);
player.loop = 2;
player.frame = 4;

But I'm not sure if the loop is reset to 0 if you change the view. So if that happens, you need to save the frame first:

Code: ags

int temp_frame = player.frame;
player.ChangeView(THEVIEW);
player.frame = temp_frame;

Yes there's is way but it involves somewhat advanced custom dialog scripting.

For starters you can do remove the current GUI to get AGS' default behavior.
In "General Settings" under "Dialog" set "Use GUI for dialog options" to 0. That way the dialog box scales up to show all the topics.

4 Minutes
Snake Logan salutes you.

Your turn

now who is this ega action hero?
[imgzoom]http://i.imgur.com/F8Ys6Zb.png[/imgzoom]

duh.. Jack the Nipper?

Maybe we should split this into separate threads: decision and discussion
Otherwise I guess we might never get started - and the help file situation is really not the best.

To sum things up, there's just one usable Help Authoring Tool: it's Sphinx.
Moving over to Sphinx isn't hard, as Alberth already provided a conversion tool and did the conversion.
At the moment the AGS help file is huge and rewriting it from scratch would be a tremendous task. It will need to be split up, but it can wait.
Moving all the documentation into the actual source code (my opinion) would make things even worse and waste countless hours, although I'd like to hear CW's and Guroks take on this.

I've just converted the documentation of the 9Verb-template to Sphinx:
http://shatten.sonores.de/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/9Verbs_sphinx_doc.zip

After having that done I'd like to underline that a rewrite of the AGS help file will take ages. Also I highly doubt that module authors are willing to learn how to write .rst files But for the included templates, we should provide the documentation somehow.

@CW: Since you are building the current chm files, what do you think about moving from the .tex file to .rst ?