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Here's what I've arrived to.

11 objects all at the same transparency.

This is JimReed's style of Fog.



EDIT: Ryan, I've sent you a PM.

I want to achieve the eye pleasantness of the water reflections in McCarthy chronicles. I just walked hours all over them!

My advice on drawing the fog would be to keep it simple.  Take four colors from the grays (light gray, mid gray, gray, dark gray) and draw a fog bank in each of those colors.  The sprite can be identical, the point is to have a few of them (like the Castlevania IV intro) to work with.  Draw them sort of like wispy torn clothing at the sides and then write up a function that takes four objects (characters would work even better and could be easily switched to a new room) and slides them across the screen at different speeds in a looping fashion (brightest fog sprite to darkest).  With 40-60% transparency on and the fog sprites overlapping you should see nice results without having to break your head.  I actually used an approach somewhat like this for Mind's Eye, though the images were much much bigger.  Obviously you could extend this to have as much fog as you like, though at some point you'll notice a performance loss.

This came really handy. So what comes up is should I build this into a GUI, and have each "fog" object inherit the transparency property from the GUI, or should every "fog" object have an individual transparency?

Go near a river at daybreak and bring a camera. =)

EDIT: Also, show us what you got, maybe I could make you a room and export it? I still owe you for thoose songs  

It sucks badly so I keep avoiding the chance to share it publicly.

Well, the only things you need to draw using this method would be individual clouds of fog.
A nice way to draw it...hm...well, you could draw floor clinging, long, horizontal "clouds" of purelly white, and then make them transparent, according to the before-mentioned method. They should slowly move to one side, pushed by a breeze. Note that strong winds dissipate fog, so make that movement pretty slow.
Fog as you probably know, is just water vapour (just like clouds). If rain falls on a hot day, it would turn into steam (which is warmer than air), and go up. If it gets cold (night falls) the steam cools off and drops to the ground. That's when you get fog. Also, fog is present around marshes, because there is much water there to be turned into steam.

If this doesn't help, try googling marsh/swamp for some reference pictures.

I want to find a reference image that can be used in a video game, or can be easily replicated, but I find this impossible. Aynone have any ideas? I tried doing some clouds, but that's the result I came up on the already version of the game.

Some Dutch painters when painting ships, used a fog effect for producing depth.

This could be applied to this problem also.
Basically, fade everything in the distance progressively more white (if the fog is white). For characters, use .y coordinate to tint them more white as they go to the distance, draw the background elements that are more distant more faded, and add some objects to represent particular wisps of fog, making them fully white and adjusting their transparency to less transparent the further they are.

And we back to basics, how in the name of god, do you draw fog? Images would really help, because I can't.

Okay, so technical sector solved. On to the drawing!

1. Use a GUI. Possibly slow for a full-screen effect.

Okay, granted.

One question though...is there a reason people hate indenting their code? Even if it's pseudo-code...this is still a big peeve of mine. Ah well... :

Nope, not at all.

Why do people do this other annoying thing with brackets?

Code: ags

function room_Load() 
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So how to do it now? How do you draw fog? Any ideas? (This probably means it should go to the Critics Lounge)

[Authors:]

Ever wondered how to handle and create FOG in an AGS game?

Authors: Dualnames and Ryan Timothy
AGS Dependencies: AGS 2.72 and Later!

Here's the answer to your question. The Fog Module. Mostly scripted by Ryan Timothy.

• Download Fog Module Version 1.00 + Template Files
  

And Video Demonstration

Andrew McCormack had a birthday, hooray!

Seconded to the yayness!

[More serious question!]

Ok, thanks. I guess it's quite useless as wikipedia article describes it's failure to become important and lack of support. I was actually just wondering, why don't we still have something that's 10+ years late.

More serious question!

Is there something that creates connected vectors with endpoints, and I can link vectors-points and assign images to them so I have something to create animations simply?

I mean something exactly like SSH's walkcycle generator, but with more options and power?
Flash... feels a bit too complicated for such little task.

Steve and SSH, worked on something like that. Check the Thread about Walkcycle Generator there's a download link on page 5 if I recall.

EDIT:

Here..
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php?topic=26501.msg421043#msg421043

Happy Babarthday!

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AHAHAHA, so funny! Anyway, happy due to time birthday ol'chap, may you kill the water gently and may it suffer a lot!!

Happy birthday to the terrorist that can script and all! Babar. The man who kills water any time of the day..

EDIT: I saw boxing day, and I thought it was today. Anyway happy bearly birthday!

Happy F*^& birthday Andail!!

Happy birthday to the man I have to ask some questions to..

Thanks Peder and Jim!

Glad to hear I'm unwittingly contributing to the fight against the MacCormack regime 

Well,it seems its fighting back now though, but I have one last surprise...

Happy Birthday to Ben304!! The man who gave me more ratings than I hoped for!!(also helped to beat SSH out of his blog and all)

24 hours are good, and I suggest one competition per week. Or one every weekend?

Happy birthday to Mr.Ponch too!!

Late one for Oliwerko, and happy birthday to Peder 

Seconded to both of you!!!