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This is a bizarre request but, I am looking for about a 50x15 character (approx. dimensions of facing forward view). I want one male and one female naked...or at least only wearing bikinis (so I can add clothes later). If you can do this quickly that would be super awesome. I have been trying to do it with poser but the size reduction kills it and makes it look like poo.

Additional animation suggestions:

pick up put down: High, Waist level, on floor
die: fall back, fall forward
stand up/sit down
personally I like lucas style standing and talking while moving arms.

EDIT: You know...I was just thinking...we seem to have a few people here who enjoy playing with 3D stuff. How about doing another insta-game pack with just 3D stuff. Does anyone enjoy doing basic backgrounds...? Maybe I will try to throw something together with Bryce 3D and post it here.

thanks,
-junc

The right and left animations. I added some hair and head bobbing so hopefully it will be a little less robot like.

EDIT: Front and back:




eh ,
-junc

I made some changes.

The hands are slightly fixed. I guess it will do.

I shaded the big eye, inside and outside.

I fixed the stupid pupil thing...don't know how I missed him oogling out at me like that.

Round head and tube like arms I don't know if I can do without completely redoing him. I'm not that good at this sort of thing.

Now it's time to work on that walk animation...

EDIT: Attempt at walk animation:


Thanks!
-junc

What do you think? :

-junc

Code: ags

string d_sec;
string d_min;
string d_hours;
string d_day;

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// 
//Timer
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
int timer=0,sec=0,min=0,hours=12,day=1;
function time() { timer+=1;
if (timer>=GetGameSpeed()) {
  sec+=5;
  timer=0;
        if (sec>=60) { 
        min+=1;
        sec=0;
        if (min>=60) {
        hours+=1;
        min=0;
   if (hours>=60) {
        day+=1;
        hours=0;} 
   }
        
    } 
}
}
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// 
//Timer
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

This is a timer Spyros posted that I modified. It should work with some minor modifications for what you are doing.

Good luck,
-junc

1. You should move to a different state. That HSED thing sounds just plain stupid.

2. I got in a car accident when I was 17 and missed a year of High School. The Flint school system is pretty screwed up. When I tried to go back they told me that because I had missed so much school and was over 16 I couldn't. I was supposed to go to adult high school. So I tried to sign up for that. They didn't honor about half of the credits from my High School and told me that I had two years to go (when I got in the car accident I was half way through my junior year). So, I said screw that and got my GED as soon as I turned 18.

I moved to Columbus, Ohio and attended OSU for a while. I am now $20,000 in debt and sick of taking crap courses (see YakSpit's post, heh).

I think I'm gonna be a trucker. No kidding.

Trucking school is about 5 grand and they have full loan programs. I think I am going to do that until I can afford to go to the Recording Workshop. (Click HERE to see my attempt to do this for free)

I'm 28, unemployed, sort of a college dropout, and life in general sucks.

Dude, unless if you have kids I say QUIT your job. You will never be anywhere but a dead end job without some kind of high school education (GED, HSED crap, whatever). Why do you work so much? I refuse to work 40 hours a week for less than $10 an hour. It just doesn't make sense. I'm not a slave and neither are you. Get your GED, move to a different state, work some shit job while living on campus for a year, then sign up for student loans, and go to college.

If you don't know about student loans and how to live for free. Just ask, I will tell you how it works. I haven't worked for four months and I'm unemployed right now...but, I have rent for the next two months and a fridge full of food. Student loans rock.

jesh...I've got to learn to write shorter posts...

later,
-junc

Hmmm...I checked the heck out of that section...double check your inventory for me and if you have everything could you email me the save game please?

Here is what you should have in your inventory:

Spoiler

Full Cup
Coconut
Headband
Ice Skate

The leaves should be one the floor of the cave and the fire should be lit. Wilson should also be visible in the corner.

[close]

ARGHH...I just found a pretty bad bug which may be what you did...

Spoiler

If you start the fire before you have Wilson in your inventory it lets you do it. It shouldn't. I will have to fix this. Thanks for finding it! Thanks for playing! I will have the update up soon.

[close]

EDIT: Okay, it should be fixed now. I also updated the credits plug in so the credits aren't all jumbled at the end. The upload is in the same place under the same name.

later,
-junc

I have a theory.

The surge actually starts is December and builds up until it peaks and falls off sharply after March. (any previous surges are due to MAGS competitions that lots of people join or end of summer where lots of games are completed) The December to March surge I would attribute to people that said "my game will be out by 2003" and then fell behind and rushed to get it out by then.

Other reasons could be Spring break, lots of vacations at the same time mean more time to work on games. For me, my inability to find a job is 100% related to my participation in MAGS. So perhaps unemployment rates skyrocketed in March too!

Just my theory.

later,
-junc

Okay, two things:

1. On the auto-complete/parameters list if you are doing dialogs and you type "stop" and press enter it "auto completes" another function for you. Is there a way to add stop to the autocomplete while inside of the dialog editor, or just have it auto complete dialog commands?

2. I have a set of GUI's that work fine in one game but, when I import them to a different game and click on GUI 3 in the editor it gives me this error EVERY TIME:

Exception 0x0C0000005 at EIP=0x00466691, AGSE v2.55.359

When I run the game the GUI displays and functions just fine. I did notice one possible cause: My slider image didn't import with it. Is there a bug with this?

EDIT: I removed the graphic from both sliders and the GUI worked fine.

One more question/comment: I was unable to find anything in the help file about how to use the new "GUI name". I figured this out after some trial and error...

later,
-junc

Sure.

Kind of. Basically AGS can do nearly anything you can imagine, if you can script it (Of course there are graphics limitations ). What you are describing would actually be fairly simple once you have MASTERED scripting.

I would highly recommend starting off a little bit slower though. Make a short game first, just to learn scripting. Then start fleshing out some code for your RPG system.

You should pay attention to global varialbes a LOT. Learn how math functions work inside of AGS. Learn tons about GUI's. If you already have programming experience then you should pick up things within a month or so. If you don't and you work hard you could have it together within two months. Good luck.

later,
-junc

WOW.

This is a perfect adaptation.

When the credits started I seriously thought you had just put the REAL Larry 2 up for download. This is really great!

By the way, Demos are supposed to stay in the In production thread...I don't know though...this is a really long and really well done DEMO...

WOW

later,
-junc

EDIT: I just finished the demo. I did find two small errors.

One: At the game show when describing the girl there is a small error in "nothing in the penthouse" statement.

Two: In the drug store you can walk onto the soda machine, you can do it when you have the soda, I'm not sure about before.

GREAT ADAPTATION!!!!

My entry:

Download "Tom Hanks Away" HERE!

EDIT: You can view the walkthrough HERE

...and here is a screenshot:


later,
-junc

WooHoo! My Cast Away parody is finished. In 9 Freakin' days!! I like it, I had fun doing it...hope you have fun playing it. Don't forget to vote for me when the time comes!

Download "Tom Hanks Away" HERE!

...and here is a screenshot:


You can view the walkthrough HERE

later,
-junc

I typed this really great and funny post that was going to win a pulitzer prize, hit the preview button...

and then I hit the back button... :

Anyway. I think it would be nice to put everyone's score under their name while they are still at "Newbie" status. Also, get rid of the going back and changing answers part. If you post a short blurb before the test starts about how the results will be posted under your title maybe some people will take it seriously.

All in all I really like the test and don't think it should be changed. Minus missing one or two questions I really wish there was a way to ban people but then we would be "Facists", right Chris? Perhaps a "try again in 24 hours" ban if they miss more than 50%?

eh,
-junc

If your computer is restarting sometimes I'm afraid it may be a little more than the OS.

I had a crashing problem with my GeForceMX (on WINXP) as well. It just froze all of the time and then dumped to 256 color mode. I solved the problem by clocking my processor down. Through BIOS you can set the speed of the processor to 1.1GHZ or 1.5GHZ. At 1.1GHZ the crash goes away. This basically proves that my problem wasn't software, but hardware.

The GeForceMX just plain sucks. It has given me nothing but problems. Your problem is a little more unsettling though. Restarting on it's own...just isn't good. WindowXP is REALLY good at recovering from bad errors. I do some really screwed up things sometimes with my OS and I must say XP is the best damn OS out there for people like me. It's just a matter of learning how to use it.

Anyway, I assume it is still just a hardware conflict with that GeForceMX that Windows can't detect. Keep on trying different setups. Do you run a lot of 3D stuff? Disable the video card or turn the performance settings off for a while and see how that works. That worked "sometimes" for me before I did the CPU thing.

good luck,
-junc

Wow.

I need to take a break.

That was stupid. :

thanks,
-junc

I have had similiar problems before and have a solution given to me by Scorpiorus. That sort of works for this problem but, it will just take forever to do. Besides this doesn't make since, the engine is skipping commands.

Here is my code:

Code: ags

SetGlobalInt(45,2);
ObjectOff(2);
if (GetGlobalInt(46) ==0){
  RunDialog(1);
  SetGlobalInt(46,1);
}
if (GetGlobalInt(46) ==1){
  PlaySound(1);
  SetGlobalInt(46,2);
}
if (GetGlobalInt(46) ==2){
  RunDialog(2);
  SetGlobalInt(46,3);
}
if (GetGlobalInt(46) ==3){
 SetCharacterView(WILSON, 8);
 AnimateCharacter(WILSON, 0,3,0);
 Wait(20);
SetGlobalInt(46,4);
}
if (GetGlobalInt(46) ==4){
 ReleaseCharacterView(WILSON);
 SetGlobalInt(46,5);
}
if (GetGlobalInt(46) ==5){
 RunDialog(3);
 SetGlobalInt(46,6);
}  

When I run this it plays the sound, plays the animation, and runs dialog 3. It completely skips the other two dialogs. It also does all of that at the same time. Should the commands be executed this way!?

If that is the case then I will just use what Scorpiorus recommended HERE

thanks,
-junc

Happy day after B-Day!

later,
-junc

EDIT: Crap, nevermind. I updated to 2.55.560.0 and it went away. Still...that wasn't part of the walkbehind bug was it? eh.

This MIGHT be a bug. I say might because it involves leaving AGS. Whenever I right click and copy to clipboard in the sprite manager and paste into a paint program it takes a few clicks to register. At first I thought it was just random, but then I realized it just happened every time. One click, doesn't work, second click does. Very strange. It very well could be my mouse, OS, clipboard, or Photoshop. Perhaps someone else could try to duplicate the error on another machine.

later,
-junc

There are tools to open and edit SCI VGA resources, you just can't put them back into the game yet. Check out http://www.classicgaming.com/agisci/ and keep an eye on the site CJ mentioned. SCI VGA should be available within the next few months or so.

And because I'm a nice guy, HERE are both of the programs you need to both view and edit the resources in one zip file.

have fun,
-junc