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Vroooom Vroooom!!!
You guys are great.
@khris: Would it be possible to cut down filesize by only using 180 rotations and calculating or otherwise overlaying the images for the 1° in between?

@Ryan:
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That's cool!
The size feels right. The turning is slow, but you probably know that.

raisin?

oh thanks, that was the best I could do

hehe, this getting even more minimalistic. Next stop 2x2px font pls.

wow running really smooth. But the map felt small, do you think it will still run that smooth with bigger maps?

Also would a mapdesigner have to draw in boundaries and powerups 360 times per map? Sounds like this would become a cool engine without maps

if AGS could render these maps from a base map on first access and also rotate all the hotspots and walking areas which are like boundaries and powerups I want a mapeditor now
even when AGS renders these maps from 1 file the filesize on hdd could explode, this is 64mb now, bigger maps mean more filesize (in exponential growth? dunno about relation of canvas size to filesize in pcx) and even triple doubling for rendered hotspot and walkable area maps. Not that hdd space is a problem nowadays but suddenly having 1GB occupied by a kartracergamelevel seems funny.
Can AGS created and later access zip files? Could be a solution. Or reduce the size of the kart and decrease movement speed so the world feels bigger.

how do you do this between all this hardcore game guessing? But yeah, this is very appreciated  *crosses fingers* 

Tomb Raider 0: the early years?

[Selmiak]

Selmiak: Spire-tastic! It reminds me a lot of medieval Byzantine or old Persian art. Guess there's no point questioning the logic of the scene (like pointing out that the windows in the big tower are as big as some of the smaller towers themselves!), as it's a fantasia. But I still think a more unified, somewhat simpler design would have been more effective. Its game role is unclear to me.

thanks. Yeah, the windows in the big tower are as big as some of the smaller towers. But now you can imagine what people/creatures live in the big tower. </fantastic explanation>
And if I reworked the huge windows to the size of the windows of the smaller towers the huge tower wouldn't look as impressive in contrast as it does atm. </design choice explanation>
But actually I just painted like I felt and didn't care too much about logic in this world </boring but inspired artist explanation> That's also why there is no clear use for ingame besides as an eyecandy inbetween overview map for having a really downscaled character go from the tower to the edge of the screen

Kasander

Alright. Then it still would be cool to have it all in the editor like I hallucinatedimagined and described above and when compiling just have it create an alternative userstyled winsetup.exe that doesn't run the acwin.exe with with --setup parameters but manipulates the cfg file. Maybe in 3.3.1 or 3.3.2

wait, after bouncing this a bit around in my head, the setup window that opens when winsetup is run is actually part of the engine, hardcoded into the compiled game so to say?

falling down?

Engine it is then 

you mean an extra program AGS-winsetupmaker? Hell yeah! Sadly I know nothing about application coding...
Then again if this was included in the editor, maybe in general setting with something like (_) create custom winsetup and a new node appearing in the options tree then I also wouldn't oppose, also it would be less hassle with extra programs.

Would it be possible to have another tab in the editor where you could custom skin the winsetup display. Like a custom background image and move around and resize the buttons and dropdownmenues to your likings?
For the latter part I imagine having some checkboxes in the properties where you can just turn on/off the visibility of the menu items so that noone has to search all that long if he accidentaly deleted a button.
Also customizing the font color and background colors and frames of the displays and dropdownboxes would be neat
also custom icons for mini/maximize and close and the ability to drag them around and also custom forms (who wants to be square all the time?) would be really great!

Should I add a feature request/suggestion to the tracker? Also, if this is engine related (which I doubt) please move it there.

is there a way to apply this to guis and especially text displayed on buttons and textboxes?

what kind of strange games do you people play?
A cop in pink underwear in a strange dimensioned castle. There are only the swastika flags (or on his underwear) missing to make it even more absurd...

cagefightclub

how would updating the non-wiki tutorial parts on the mainpage work? make a thread for every page and discuss what has to be changed and taken out, replaced and added? Have a wiki page where everyone can edit and the final result is put into the tutorial pages? clutter up this thread?

Just skimming over the GUI tutorial I found the screenshots are very outdated and also

2. Size appropriately
How big do we want our GUI to be? Well, it's only a quit dialog, so I'll go with 160x80 to start with - we can always resize it later if necessary. Remember that the GUI sizes are specified in low-res co-ordinates, so 160 represents half the width of the screen, no matter whether your game is actually 320x200 or 640x480.

This is very outdated info and confusing for newbies.
Also a link to GUI scripting part2 at the end would be helpful. Maybe even at the beginning for reader's convenience.

yep!