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I've recently come across a file called '1321_110_combined.ogg' - Get's the error 'Unexpected error: Filename too long (limit is 12 chars): '1321_110_combined.ogg''

I shortened the filename to CombinedLine.ogg ('aCombinedLine'), but it still complains about the file which no longer exists.

I can't rename the file to it's old name; it's too long.
I can't keep the filename; it always gets an error.
I can't change it; there's always the error for the old filename, which doesn't exist.
I deleted the Audio file (and associated filename), deleted everything in AudioCache; re-added the Audio file (from the new filename, CombinedLine.ogg); doesn't work, same error.

Help please, can't compile my game which is already 700mb and taken a year to write!

[edit by Darth]

Oh, I'm all into homages/ripoffs

And Sam & Max was designed, drawn and animated by Steve Purcell - an artist and long time employee of Lucasarts as someone who used Sam & Max in training material while the SCUMM scripting system was benig developed.

edit by Darth - non game-related images removed. Feel free to send via PM!

...And actually that car scene is the front of building scene in sam and max.

[You can get it and the game from:https://gamejolt.com/games/the-art-of-dying/21047]

Hey - just wondering if anyone is still alive up there? Downloads are dead, get a 404 - any mirrors?
I'm really looking forward to that source code

EDIT
You can get it and the game from:
https://gamejolt.com/games/the-art-of-dying/21047

cJulius.LockView(82);   //'reading script' animation
cJulius.Animate(2,0,eOnce,eNoBlock);
while (cJulius.Animating && !WaitMouseKey(1)){
    Wait(1);
}

This works, and wait's for a mouse button

[No]

cJulius.Animate(2,0,eOnce,eNoBlock);
while (cJulius.Animating){
    Wait(1);
}

Doesn't work (in a dialogue script).

StartCutscene(eSkipAnyKey);
cJulius.Animate(2,0,eOnce,eBlock);
EndCutscene();

Doesn't work; can't skip seen, even though a timer doesn't appear.

StartCutscene(eSkipAnyKey);
cJulius.Animate(2,0,eOnce,eNoBlock);
EndCutscene();

Doesn't work, animation doesn't play (for more than one frame).

StartCutscene(eSkipAnyKey);
   cJulius.Animate(2,0,eOnce,eNoBlock);
   while (cJulius.Animating && !Game.SkippingCutscene){
      Wait(1);
   }
EndCutscene();

Doesn't work; timer appears, doesn't allow skipping.

cJulius.Animate(2,0,eOnce,eNoBlock);
while (cJulius.Animating && !IsKeyPressed(eKeyEscape)){
    Wait(1);
}

DOES WORK - in a dialogue script, anyway. Now I start the journey of finding out how to say 'If the user clicks the left mouse button'...

(Also tried with the second argument to animating to 1; 0 is illegal. Same thing; animation doesn't play.)

I've probably asked this before, but humour me.

I'm trying to run an animation at the begining of each question in a dialog:

Code: ags

@2
cJulius.LockView(82);
cJulius.Animate(2,0,eOnce,eBlock);
cJulius.SayBubble("&1301 'What's your favourite character?'");
...

However, the animation is a bit too long - ~2 seconds. Because it's blocking, I can't skip it, even as it delays every single question. BUT If I change it to eNoBlock, it doesn't happen.
Same for the following:

Code: ags

@1
cJulius.LockView(82);
while (!cJulius.Animating) {
	cJulius.Animate(2,0,eOnce,eNoBlock);
}

and

Code: ags

@1
cJulius.LockView(82);	//read's script
cJulius.Animate(2,0,eOnce,eNoBlock);
cJulius.UnlockView();

and

Code: ags

@1
cJulius.LockView(82);	//read's script
cJulius.Animate(2,0,eOnce,eNoBlock);
*all the other lines*
cJulius.UnlockView();

Basically, how can I get a NoBlocking view to just play, once; but if I click or press space-bar it moves on instantly to the next animation (talking)?

Now - I *know* this is a stupid question, but: how did you do the 3D?
A plugin, a module?
How did you design the rooms, obects, hotspots?

I've been wanting to make a 3D game for some time now, but I didn't know AGS was capable of it; except for some plugin from like 10 years ago for v1 of the engine :/

HOW did you do it? Or is it just a clever illusion with 3D generated 'flat' rooms and animation?

It has the look of, colour off, and animation of Sam & Max - can't wait to try it

Thank you, it works

BTW now my problem is: How do I set a hotspot's Description at runtime? I can't look it up as a property, and Set/GetTextProperty doesn't have it (ofcourse, but I gave it a try).

Okay, well I created my GUI, however it didn't far as the background (which was transparent) blocked the mouse cursor from objects.... sometimes.
How do I z-order the thing to the not-interfering with the mouse layer?
Or do I just make it a small GUI and place it at the bottom of the screen?
Well that would seem obvious...

[Buckethead:]

Buckethead: I've never heard of this before, does it work for anything always just by including the text? Are there any other @ variables in th game?

Any tutorials or articles on how to git working in Windows 10, for the game?

Yes, all separate sub-folders; so it goes by sub-folder order?

Update: The dialogue with the problem was just above dialog 10

[before]

Sorry, I was confused about whether the error was before dialog 10 (dialog 1 2 3 4...); or after (dialog 11 12 13 14...).
Can it be both?

So it was dialog 34 (?), which I've edited recently with huge bunch of brackets. Added 1, game compiles
So no idea why it's 34, but there we are :/

[compiled]

But what of a 'nested function' error?

What I meant was, how are dialog scripts compiled?
...But they're all put in a temp file and compiled this way; now I have to go through all 53 of them :/

[How are dialogs processed - one after the other (dialog 10, 11, 12...), or from the entry point (dialog.start()) or in some other way?Why don't errors in them have a line number *in* the dialog, not just "there was an error in your dialog, or around it, idk"?Why is it so impossible to find a nested function when it happens anywhere in your project, and the error refers to a dialog that doesn't have it?]

Well, it's the most dreaded error of them all; a dialogue closing brace error.
It only tells you that a dialogue has a buffer overflow (but not where! You left out a closing " in 500 lines of code, which you now have to check); or a buffer overflow on the wrong dialogue (complains of dialogue 3 when it was dialogue 2); or 'nested function' - probably means you did something like this:

Code: ags

function foo (args) {
  some stuff;

//<--- MISSING CLOSING BRACE

function bar (args) {
  more stuff;
}

I have the 'line 1: nested functions are not supported' error for a dialog; but nothing of the above in my code.
I deleted everything in the dialogue; same error (but it can't be that dialog, because it has nothing in it!)
I checked the dDialog.Start() function, and all the code before and after it; no problems - unless someone can find the problem:

Code: ags

function cAlien_Talk()
{
  cJulius.Walk(256, 248, eBlock, eWalkableAreas);
  cJulius.FaceCharacter(cAlien, eBlock);
  dAlien.Start();        //talk to alien
}

function cHoF_Talk()
{
  dHoF.Start();    //talk to HoF - dialog 10
}

function gInventory_OnClick(GUI *theGui, MouseButton button)
{
  //some random function with nothing in it
}

Then I checked Dialog 9 and 11 (the error was with dHoF, dialog 10); nothing. Deleted everything in 9 10 and 11; stll had error for line 1 of dialog 10.

Deleted my most recent change to the GlobalScript.asc; no change, same error

My question is:
How are dialogs processed - one after the other (dialog 10, 11, 12...), or from the entry point (dialog.start()) or in some other way?

Why don't errors in them have a line number *in* the dialog, not just "there was an error in your dialog, or around it, idk"?

Why is it so impossible to find a nested function when it happens anywhere in your project, and the error refers to a dialog that doesn't have it?

Please help. I have a horrible feeling that this will make it impossible to F5/test the game until I'd been through 750,000 lines of code (not an exaggeration) :/

Are the changes put in the main tree for a release? 3.4.1r1?
Do you know where/how to change the source control to Git, or is it manual?