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American Psycho?

IT GRINDS MY GEARS WHEN:

I go back to try and complete an AGS project from months ago and I fix all the problems, only to break everything, and then I have to revert to an earlier version where things worked pretty much, and then have to remember how I "fixed" everything, and then I break several things, and then...

I realise that all my gear grinding is totally my own fault for not being more organised in the first place...

Wow, I've definitely been there.
Thankfully I've got a good memory, and can usually recall what I fixed and how I fixed everything. But there's always that niggling doubt in the back of my mind that I've forgotten something, and there's a rare bug just lurking about.

Two words: VERSION CONTROL.
I mean, come on, people are using these for decades now.

An example of my AGS module's demo game under the source control: https://bitbucket.org/ivan-mogilko/ags-script-demos/commits/all

An example of how your script changes look under source control: https://bitbucket.org/ivan-mogilko/ags-script-demos/commits/a53ee0fbdb827c7380a61af82cb9cf4d0141477e
(yes, it would certainly benefit from comments too, but I was too lazy that day )

Not exactly sure what I see on that picture .

Life of Pi?

[engine]

It's really kind of a crap-shoot as to whether the user has any given C++ runtime installed, but I could say at least that the 2008 runtime is very common and required to run the engine

I know this is 6 months old, but still want to clarify just in case: AGS engine does NOT require VC Redist, because it has VC libs statically linked. This is why you don't usually need anything extra installed to run the games.

[What's new in 1.0.0]

And hereby I release Drag & Drop module v1.0.0.
DOWNLOAD DragDrop 1.0.0 MODULE
DOWNLOAD DragDropCommon 1.0.0 MODULE
DOWNLOAD Demo game (needs AGS 3.2.1 or higher)
(Also updated first post)

Not sure how much this was popular, since I got only 1 response and no questions about module usage, but I keep hopes that it will be useful to some.

What's new in 1.0.0

This update was focused on making DragDropCommon module capable of dragging object images instead of objects themselves, which also let me implement dragging of InventoryItems.

1. Added DragDropCommon.DragMove property, which determines the way dragging is done. It can be:
- eDDCmnMoveSelf - drags the object itself at real time (does not work for Inventory Items);
- eDDCmnMoveGhostOverlay - drags overlay with object's image on it (won't work for GUI and Controls);
- eDDCmnMoveGhostGUI - drags supplied custom GUI with object's image on it (currently does not work for GUI and Controls, but this is ONLY way to make inventory items drag & drop);

2. Additionally to DragMove, following properties can be set:
- DragDropCommon.GhostTransparency - determines ghost mode image transparency;
- DragDropCommon.GhostAlpha - determines whether ghost mode uses images with alpha channel;
- DragDropCommon.GhostGUI - sets custom GUI to be used for eDDCmnMoveGhostGUI mode (this MUST be set, otherwise it won't work);

3. Following new properties are meant for reading current state:
- DragDropCommon._InvItem - pointer to inventory item (if one is being dragged);
- DragDropCommon.ObjectWidth - returns dragged object/representation width, either taken from its properties, or deduced from the image;
- DragDropCommon.ObjectHeight - returns dragged object/representation height, either taken from its properties, or deduced from the image;
- DragDropCommon.UsedGhostGraphic - returns actual graphic index used in ghost modes (or 0);

4. Added DragDropCommon.TryHookInventoryItem() function, which, naturally, tries to start dragging inventory item under DragDrop.DragStartX / DragStartY coordinates.


Extended and improved Demo Game. I was actually worried if those who downloaded it noticed there are more than 1 room. So this time I provided slightly better help messages and a kind of "startup menu".
Also, now there are 4 demo rooms.

Dunno whether related, but I know from one game that this is LHX helicopter .
I do not remember this particular screen though, so it might be another game.

I've certainly seen this before, but cannot remember exactly....

My first guess is "Might & Magic 2".
Nah, it is not that.
Actually, I was searching for a title I had on a tip of my tongue, and suddenly stumbled on this game's screenshots, so I now know what the game is, but that is probably won't qualify as a guess .

Barbarian

Prince of Darkness?

This is correct answer.

I think it is “The Stunt Man”.

I remember there was a scene in the beginning where they were filming a WWI scene with aircraft attack.

I tried setting to to 100mb and it didn't seem to make any difference to the first 5 minutes of Primordia. Ran fine but not any faster or better.

This setting will make difference only if the game must have real lot sprites, or just many high-res sprites kept loaded at the same time, such as smooth high-res character animations.

I checked the specs of iOS devices here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_iOS_devices
Apparently, newest devices have like 1-2 GB of RAM, but previous versions had much less, like 128-512 MB. I do not know how actively older iPhones are used in general, and not sure whether it will be safe to hardcode default of 100 MB sprite cache for iPhone then. I can enable reading this property from config file though (do not see why not).

Can anyone tell, whether is would be acceptable to increase default sprite cache size to 100 MB for iOS device? We have a restriction in the iOS port code that limits cache size to 20 MB always (even regardless the config), and I do not know why is that so.

Terminator: Polish Edition .

Amazing, I only now realized what is shown on the first screenshot. My mind played tricks with me. Until now I was thinking that camera angle is parallel to ground, and we see a guy crawling out of the hatch, observing a huge sci-fi facility... and the car was a pitch black tunnel...

Hmm.. it really seems like listboxes do not allow to change colors during runtime - only fonts. Has this been overlooked for such a long time? Maybe it's best to open a separate thread for this.

I believe there is already a general issue about non-changeable GUI properties in the tracker.

The workaround for background color (I think) is to create GUI background image and dynamically draw it.