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Boobs and half a swastika.

that's exactly what I saw. omg our brains must be interlinked. :o

lolz I just did some searching and these came up. I'll try to remember to do my research before asking next time. Thanks:)

The new version of JD will be featuring characters with nice fancy 24 bit alpha transparencies. Being rather frame-heavy, this will most likely leave the game immensely large (mb wise). Is there some easy way of compressing these assets? "Compress the sprite file" yields no results, and I see no point trying to compress them before sticking them into AGS.

edit: to my great relief I just noticed the game compresses beautifully when I zip the whole thing. I guess file size while unzipped isn't really a big issue nowadays so maybe there's no cause for alarm. Any thoughts?

calin: yeah. 16:10 is both nice and common. I'm not after low res though. If 16:10 is the rule, I'd prefer it if I could chose 1280*800 as the resolution for my game. 640*400 doesn't really cut it.

ascovel: true, but I'm not after multiplying, I want the original dimensions to change.

anian: agreed. it's a mess!

wyz: I'd love that too. Let's keep on dreaming, lol.

I can't even select 1280x960 in the general settings pane of my game. Can you? What am I doing wrong, lol?
I'd like to run my game at 1280x720. A nice resolution in my eyes. I wonder if monitors in general can handle it in full screen...

I think as long as you're going for windowed you're fine. Most people should be able to fit it onto their screen. I think it's a real shame not to run games in full screen though... For me, windowed really ruins the immersion.

[So another question then:]

Steam does seem random in many ways.  Anyhow, thanks for your thoughts on this, guys! Confusingly enlightening! 

So another question then: Many players have widescreen monitors, many don't. Is there a common solution to this issue when building AGS games? I'd like to be certain my assets aren't being squashed and stretched at random.

Is anything stopping me from making a game in AGS and selling it on steam?

If not, is anyone doing this?

If nothing is stopping, and no one is doing it, why is that?

Thanks for the quick response Gilbet!

Anyone know if there are any plans on pushing the mac runtime to AGS 3.2 compatibility?
The thread seemed somewhat dead sadly.

Saren: A good thing to know about alpha channels is that there are two common different types of them. There are those traditionally used in oldschool games that are simply transparency on/off. This is what you get in a .gif or a 8 bit .png. More commonly nowadays however is a fancier transparency that uses 256 depths of transparency, thus making it possible to have nice smooth edges on things, instead of jaggedy on/off pixels. 24 bit png's for an instance, use this.

Can I compile my AGS game into something that can run on a mac?
(not interested in running the game through a virtual machine or anything wackily complicated like that, I want a standalone version of the game that runs on mac.)

I'm guessing this is a no-go since I've seen zero ags games boasting about being mac compatible.

ok thanks yall. what an intriguing character. 

I realize this is a bit of a n00b question but it's time for me to step out of the closet and challenge my ignorance.

Who/what is oceanspirit dennis?

Me, exploration mode.



For some reason I feel it is my duty to write something catchy about my picture, I have however chosen not to do so.
Somehow on topic: Jethro tull rules. 

thanks, man! Antialiasing is working fine now!

Thanks Gothic + Leafshade. This made me realize that I am not running the newest release of AGS.

This however gives rise to another question -which honestly I feel a bit stupid asking- where can I download AGS 3.2? I found a thread in the technical forum but the dl link was broken. 

I have done some searching on the forums but have had a hard time getting a straight answer to this question:

Is it true that there is no way to have antialiased fonts in AGS when they are displayed against... say, my backdrop?