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how do i go about updating my game from the 9-verb template?

Currently both templates share the same features, except the save/load handling. You can export the save/load GUIs from the template and import them to your game. Also you need to export the optiongui module.
Actually migrating your game completely from one template to another might indeed be quite a pain I'd rather say: create a new game from Tumbleweed template and import your rooms into it. Afterwards apply your other changes, fonts colors and graphics.

however in lucasarts games when you look at stuff you can still move while the text keeps displaying

Unfortunately displaying speech is usually blocking in AGS. You could use BackgroundSpeech, but that way you would loose the talking animations with "lucas style speech".

I finally managed to update the documentation and I also added a new chapter about the changes and differences to the 9verbs MI-style template.
I guess waiting for further bug reports at this point might be a bit useless, so I call this a release candidate

Lo and behold, I received a bug report
Beta4 is up. The running mode now waits for certain distance between player character and cursor. Also the running isn't blocking anymore.

edit: We have reached Beta5. You can now "run" on hotspots with an exit extention to change rooms.

Yes, that it!

Here's a new beta and I finally managed to create a repository for this template.

Changes:
The "cog" button is now on the same GUI as the action label.
Slight changes to what happens if you "talk to" nothing.
Code cleanup and small bugfixes

Did actually anyone already give this a go?

Sure, go to guiscript.asc and take a look at the Unhandled Function
instead of:

Code: ags

    // unhandled USE INV
    else if (UsedAction(eGA_UseInv)) player.Say("That won't do any good.");

you could write

Code: ags

    // unhandled USE INV
    else if (UsedAction(eGA_UseInv)) {
      if (player.ActiveInventory == iKnife) player.Say("I don't want to cut that.");
      else if (player.ActiveInventory == iOtherStuff) player.Say("I don't even know what it is.");
      else player.Say("That won't do any good.");
}

The unhandled function is all yours to be edited

Nope, it's more like a mixture between Soccer and Billiard

This should give it away.
[imgzoom]http://i.imgur.com/hEBwUlM.png[/imgzoom]

I completely overlooked you ninja edit:

p.s. i noticed that at the end of "function any_click_move" is a "Wait(5);" command...any specific reason why this is there? from what i can tell, all it does is cause the game to block for a fraction of a second every time the character reaches his destination...which felt kind of "glitchy" to me t.b.h.

This is from a time before 3.4.0 where you needed a wait command to actually see the character turning. Why it's Wait(5) instead of Wait(1)... no idea

I replaced it with this code snippet

Code: ags

#ifver 3.4
    player.FaceDirection(dir, eBlock);
#endif
#ifnver 3.4
  player.FaceDirection(dir);
  Wait(1);
#endif

Unfortunately nothing I could do right now. Possibly CW, Gurok or Alan could help you out.

what seems to be happening is that the names of inventory items get cut off after 24 characters.

I only tried 15 chars when I tried it. But this is seems to be a limitation of AGS itself. The editor limits object names to 29 characters, but apparently it forgot about limiting inventory names.

But the label itself could display all those characters

edit: Hotspot names can be pretty long, I just managed to display "Go To 01234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456"

Yeah Psygnosis can't be denied.
But it's not from Shadow of the Beast.

And the main "character" sprite is very disappointing. So much, that I though my copy was broken

If nobody else wants to, I'd like to ask:

Who else played this:

Hmm... I can't reproduce the first issue. Whenever I click on something empty with "Use" selected, the action just switches to "Go To". No movement involved at all.
Could it be that in your roomscript you have a misplayed MovePlayer or player.Walk command? Does it happen in all rooms?
Also try to create a new game and check if it also happens in this "alley" sample room, the template provides.

also: is there a limit to how many characters can be displayed in the action bar? i have an item that has a pretty long name and i noticed it gets cut off in the action bar even though there's still plenty of room left.

I just counted 52 characters in total. Did you change the font of the label or did the label size change?
Have a look at the GUI gAction and check the properties of the label ActionLine

Alright, thanks! I'll stick with layout then.

Btw. I've uploaded a new beta. For better testing the second room is now scrolling.
Thanks to arj0n, we have a new translation: dutch.
Also thanks to Bicilotti, Monsieur Ouxx and Cireja for helping me with the existing translation.

That would be replacing the content from Guiscript.asc from here:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dkrey/ags_9verb-template/master/guiscript.asc

and guiscript.ash from here:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dkrey/ags_9verb-template/master/guiscript.ash

But backup your code first!

Additionally for the fix from 1.5.4 you need to edit the Globalscript.asc and edit the function on_key_press(eKeyCode keycode)
Make sure you comment out these two lines in the pause section

Code: ags

  // --- PAUSE-GUI ---
  if (keycode == eKeySpace)
  {
    // SPACEBAR
    if (!IsGamePaused()) {
      PauseGame();
      AdjustGUIText();
      gPaused.Visible=true;
    }
    else {
      gPaused.Visible=false;
      UnPauseGame();
      //SetDefaultAction(eMA_WalkTo);      <---- THIS LINE
      //ActionLine.TextColor=ActionLabelColorHighlighted;   <---- AND THIS LINE 
      CheckDefaultAction();
      UpdateActionBar();
    }
  }

Yep. This can be configured globally in guiscript.asc.
Around line 30 set

Code: ags

bool approachCharInteract = false;

You can also turn it on or off during game time via

Code: ags

set_approaching_char(bool enable)

[GUI style]

A question for you native speakers:

How should the label for the GUI style be called? (It is a slider where you switch between classic SCUMM mode and the 'modern' thimbleweed mode.

Currently it is slider called GUI style with the options classic and modern
In German I called the slider 'Bedienung' which can be translated to Mode of operation.

But how could it be called in English? 'GUI style' sounds a bit too technical.

Good idea, I'll update it soon

Since we use "AnyClick" the player doesn't automatically walk to characters anymore. This also applies for hotspots, objects etc.

So you need to do it like this:

Code: ags

function cBman_AnyClick()
{ 
  // TALK TO
  if (UsedAction(eGA_TalkTo)) {
    dDialog1.Start();
  }
  // Just walk to BeMan
  else if (UsedAction(eMA_WalkTo)) {
    Go();
  }
.....