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just remember these useful phrases-

Do you speak English? -- Anata wa eigo o hanashimasu ka?
Where is the toilet? -- Toire wa doko desu ka?
Where are the cheap women? -- Yasui Onna wa doko desu ka?

Found a nice one today, worth a look at for making walk animations. It's based aeound flash but the idea is all the same

http://www.eyeteach.com/

I bought a copy of Retro Gamer Magazine about 2 months ago, it was an Amiga special and came with tons of stuff on it and also a CD with the Amiga Forever emulator. It even makes the sounds of the floppy disks being read.

must go play lemmings now...

Umm, I'm kinda busy until the 19th August :/ Umm, is anyone up for doing early september when its a bit cheaper, less touristy and less little kids on holiday ?

You actually have to script what the buttons do. In the GUI editor record all the button numbers (left click them and it will tell you button 1-x)

Next thing is to click the button that says something like script gui (I havent done in GUI work in a long time so bare with me).

Probably best to look at all the other GUI's as well, but you want something like if GUI == save/load

and if button pressed == 0 then run the script to save (something like SaveGame(0) etc...

But I definatley suggest looking at the other gui.

I'd prefer the later the better, but not particularly fussed. end of july to end of september would be perfect for me.

So, could anyone help me? I'm just about to start the seance. I have the blood, and the candle, and have given these  to Madame Tilley. I need a personal item now. I remember talking to Alice about important things, and Ben said he has a ring.

I can't figure out how  to get it though! Anyone got any ideas? Thanks

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[hint]Remeber right at thie beginning?

You asked someone to look after all your personal belongings?

Try phoning them[/hint]
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Whats the darn hint code?

No-one likes a smart-ass

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I met Robert Rodriguez, and got his signature, can you believe he wouldn't sign my ass? Anywho
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I think it was all for the best, he was in a lot of pain and his health has been declining, at least the pain is gone and that a new, younger pope can be brought about.

The only thing that i'm thinking about, what do we do when someone says "is the pope polish"?

I had a thought the other day, I'll take you through my thought processes and see if anyone else agrees or stuff...

1) Mid August is going to be right in the School holidays!
2) We're all going to be over 18 (i believe)
3) No need to go peak time?

also

4) It's going to be about 42 degrees c out there, yes C unlike the British summers which are 42 degrees F!
5) Out of holidays will be much cheaper anywhere, and also towards the end!

I suggest that maybe Mittens should be put off for a later date like end of august or even the first week in september?

What made me think of this is that I'm going to have to get a summer job, and I imagine some other people might too, leaving it later means that I won;t have to quit before or ask for a weeks holiday as there is also going to be a Brittens, so I will prolly only be able to do one.

kthnxbye

Okies, thanks for the advice, I rekon I'll spend all day today drawing If I had a scanner I'd post up on the critics forum, but alas.

Babar - That looks quite nifty, but as Al said I think it would be perhaps better to follow the non tutorial steps.

Al - Those links look good. It's just gone midnight and I'm feely quite sleepy so i'll read up on them tommorow. From yur experience what would you say would be the best thing to draw?

Anyone got any links to decent tutorials to help with drawing in this kinda style. Thigs like marvel comics and things?

Cheers, I may compile this into a small little tutorial for my site.

EDIT - Also anyone else planning on using this, you have to include upper and lower-case vowels as it will be case sensitive.

You have to go into the GUI tab, choose what you want within the parser GUI (the broder) and then choose the colour, set it to 0 for clear. You can do the same with any of the objects within the gui

yea, cool, thats pretty much what I had in mind, although there may be a rare chance where something will end in an S and not be plural, such as refering to a character called James, this can be overcome by simply manually editing the look script, rather than leaving it up to an unhandled event.

Edit - I keep getting an error, String with non-string on this line:

    GetHotspotName (mouse.x,  mouse.y,  name);

any suggestions?

I suppose I could always break apart the string of the hotspot name, if it begins with a vowel use AN, if it ends with an S use some else use A. Does AGS have a function to break apart names into characters and get the string length so we can find the beginning and end?

Using a text parser isn;t going to be a lot more work, all you will be doing is replacing the standard mouse commands with written ones. When you start off you need to begin by defining words you will use in the parser tab. It should already include words such as look, take etc... add your own if you want. It's been a while since I wrote the template and I don't even have a copy of it on my PC to help explain it, I'm sure someone else can lend a hand.

If you could e-mail me the template I'll try to update it this weekend.

edit: just got hold of the template. Best thing to do would be to open room 2 up and look at alll the code which is fully comented. It should help you get started. Try to learn to understand what it's doing with each line and why. If you want run the game and test it out. Also I just realised how badl laid out and explained the whole thing is, so i'll try to improve it ASAP, but I got exmas this week so I may have to put it on hold for a week or so.

OK how would we adjust this for looking at hotspots for example.

Looking at a monkey (hotspot name monkey) wold return thats a monkey (changing monkey to be whatever the hotpot name is)