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| 1. How do I create characters in AGS? |  |
Ans. To create characters in AGS, you need to follow these steps:
1. Open the AGS editor and go to the "Characters" tab.
2. Click on the "New Character" button to create a new character.
3. Edit the character's properties, such as name, speech style, and inventory.
4. Customize the character's appearance by importing or creating sprites for their different animations.
5. Define the character's interactions, dialogues, and behaviors using the scripting system provided by AGS.
6. Save your changes and test the character in the game to ensure it functions as intended.
| 2. How can I import sprites for characters in AGS? | |
Ans. To import sprites for characters in AGS, follow these steps:
1. Prepare the sprite sheets or individual sprite images for each animation frame of the character.
2. Open the AGS editor and go to the "Sprites" tab.
3. Click on the "Import" button and select the sprite images or sprite sheet file from your computer.
4. AGS will prompt you to set the import settings, such as the number of frames, width, and height of each frame.
5. Adjust the import settings according to your sprite images and click on the "Import" button to import the sprites.
6. Assign the imported sprites to the character's different animations in the "Characters" tab.
7. Save your changes and test the character in the game to see the imported sprites in action.
| 3. How do I create views in AGS? | |
Ans. To create views in AGS, follow these steps:
1. Open the AGS editor and go to the "Views" tab.
2. Click on the "New View" button to create a new view.
3. Define the dimensions and settings of the view, such as the number of loops, frames per loop, and color depth.
4. Import or create the sprites or images for each frame of the view.
5. Arrange the frames in the desired order and assign them to different loops if needed.
6. Save your changes and test the view in the game to ensure it looks as intended.
Views are used to display background scenes, characters, and objects in AGS games.
| 4. How can I assign a view to a room in AGS? | |
Ans. To assign a view to a room in AGS, follow these steps:
1. Open the AGS editor and go to the "Rooms" tab.
2. Select the room for which you want to assign a view.
3. In the room editor, go to the "Backgrounds" section.
4. Click on the "New Background" button to create a new background for the room.
5. In the background settings, select the view you want to assign from the dropdown menu.
6. Adjust any other settings related to the background, such as scaling and positioning.
7. Save your changes and test the room in the game to see the assigned view in action.
| 5. How can I make a character interact with objects in AGS? | |
Ans. To make a character interact with objects in AGS, follow these steps:
1. Open the AGS editor and go to the "Characters" tab.
2. Select the character with whom you want to enable interactions.
3. In the character editor, go to the "Interactions" section.
4. Click on the "Add New Interaction" button to create a new interaction.
5. Choose the object with which you want the character to interact from the dropdown menu.
6. Define the actions or dialogues that should occur when the character interacts with the object.
7. Save your changes and test the interactions in the game to ensure they work as intended.
Text Transcript from Video
hi folks welcome to the AG s tutorial in
this video we'll be talking about
creating a new game and creating a
character for that game
along the way we'll will touch on views
and sprites so I've loaded up the AGS
editor and the first thing that it asks
is what we want to do so we want to
either start a new game continuing and
continue an existing game or continue a
recently edited being in this case we're
going to start a new game so I select
that click continue we get the start new
game wizard I'm going to select next and
then we're given three options for
what's the template of the game we want
to create we can either create a default
game or you can select an empty game or
a verb coin so we're going to select a
default game because what what that
gives us it gives us a few graphics on
and a few gooeys that we're going to use
in the game so we'll just kind of
piggyback off of the default games
graphics and things like that so select
the default game select next it asks for
the name of the game in this case we're
going to say Sammy's quest it asks for
the file name of the game which will
just call Sammy's quest also and then it
asks for what folder we want to create
it in which the default folder is your
Documents folder which is fine for me so
I'm going to say finish and that does a
few things now just right away we
haven't done anything but created the
game and already we have a runnable game
we can actually run the game it doesn't
do much but I'll go ahead and click run
and move this window over so that you
can see it and immediately we see that
we have a game that we can play and the
first thing I want to say is ignore I
know that you see on the video you see
actually two mouse cursors when I'm
moving the mouse cursor around you see
sort of a stickman figure and then on
top of that you see Windows cursor
ignore the Windows cursor that's on top
that's something that camstudio which is
my screen capturing program that's what
it put put on top of the mouse cursor
which Sammy's quit which AGS is is
trying to draw so so sorry about that
there's really not a whole lot I can do
about that but the cursor that we're
looking for is the one that's changing
right now as I'm right-clicking that's
the game's cursor
so already we see that we have you know
our character and we have a blank sort
of a black screen we can cause the
character to walk around by just
clicking on you know different spots in
the window across the top we have a gray
status bar and then if I move the mouse
all the way up to the top we have our
icon bar with our our game interactions
our current item a save and restore
buttons which actually work you can save
and restore the game right now if you
want to and then there's an exit button
and a Help button and all these buttons
work and that's without having to touch
a thing
a piece of code from from the game
editor at all so that's really good
functionality that we have right away
right out of the box so I'm going to
click on quit exit the game so the first
thing that we want to do is create our
character let's create Sami so what we
do is we go over to characters the
characters option in the project tree
double-click it to expand it and we have
one character and that's the character
we just saw in the game that was the
default character his name is Roger so
if you double click on him you see that
his real name down here on the
properties window is Roger I'm actually
going to turn him into Sami so I'm going
to change his real name from Roger to
Sami I'm going to change a script name
from see ego to see Sandi the script
name is the name that will we will refer
to this character as in our scripting
when we get to scripting a little later
on so the C is just a syntax meaning
this is a character object and then
Sammy is the name of the object
typically this will be the same as the
real name it's just that the script name
cannot contain spaces I can only contain
letters numbers and I think an
underscore character um now if you if
you move up a little bit you'll see
these things called views and what what
a view is simply just a collection of
sprites or a collection of graphics that
create an animation now just use the
word sprite their sprite is simply just
a graphic it's just a picture so if you
have for example if I click on animate
here on the left hand side we have as
normal view this character of normal
view and if I click animate that will
animate the characters normal view
actually caused him to start walking
that this right here is called a view
it's just the series of sprites that
make up an animation so to create a view
we want to create a view of Sammy will
will need to need to have a view well to
have a view we need to have sprites so
I'm going to scroll it up to the sprites
section of the project tree and I'm
going to double click on it and here we
have the default sprites that are built
into the game we have a blue Cup two two
versions of a key and then another
object that's used in the demo game and
if we click on the defaults folder here
we have the rest of the objects or the
rest of the sprites that are used in the
demo game including the character the
sprites for Roger scrolling down we have
all the icons across the top of the
screen here we have the mouse cursor
graphics and we have the up and down
arrow basically everything that you see
on the screen is a sprite or some kind
of picture file and some kind of bitmap
that that was created but you have to
put into the game so what we want to do
is is load up our own sprites and I'm
actually going to do that in the next
video so oh but first sorry I wanted to
mention a couple things before I go into
the next video I have a little bit of
time left on this one I wanted to
mention what the views are I want to
just to kind of show what these views
are first of all if we go into the views
here on the project tree and
double-click the view one we actually
see a set of views and this is the this
again these are the animation frames for
the default character Roger and we have
these things called loops a view is
broken down into loops loops 0 by
default is is for when the character is
facing downward the animation frame 2
when the character is facing downward
Luke 1 is for when the character is
facing to the left Luke 2 is when the
character is facing to the right and
loop 3 is when the character is facing
up those are just the default views that
are the default loops that AGS will use
so in this case we have each frame of
animation for when the character is
walking downward left right and up so if
I click on the show pre
view-button I'll actually be able to see
what about what that looks like and I'll
click animate and this will show me for
Luke zero which is one we have selected
this is the character walking downward
now I just click the up arrow and
that'll show me the next view for Luke
one which is the character walking to
the left Luke two is the character
walking to the right and loop three is
the character walking up now you notice
this pink color here that doesn't show
up in the in what you see in fact
typically the the color around the
character in this case is black the
blackness that you see around the
character typically that's going to be
this magenta color this pink color but
basically what that does is that that is
a transparent color that ends up being a
transparent color that you can see
through that color when when you see it
in the game the sprites that I'll show
in the next video are actually going to
be every one of them is surrounded by
this pink color and basically that's
just again that's just what is standard
for for transparent colors so that's the
reason that you can see you can see this
character walking but you don't see
what's you don't see what's you you
actually do see what's behind the
character in this case in this case they
used black but typically again you use
this magenta color so that's the reason
that you see that but that's what a view
is I just wanted to go ahead and explain
what a view was and what loops were
I go into the next video I wanted to say
a few things about sprite when you're
creating your sprites you or actually
when you first create your game you want
to really decide on whether or not you
want your game what color debts you want
to run your game and you have a couple
of options if you go into your general
settings of your game you have the very
first item here says setup and it says
color depth and by default it's set to
16-bit high color which and that allows
you to have up to 65,000 colors if you
wanted more than that you could change
this setting to 32-bit color and that
will allow you to have sixteen point
seven million colors but you know if you
don't want if you don't need that many
colors you can change it to 8-bit color
8-bit color allows you to have any of
256 colors the thing to note though if
you ever go to 8-bit color is that at
that point you have to start worrying
about what's called your palette your
color palette and you can get to your
color palette by going over to colors in
your project tree I'm going to double
click there now and I'm an 8-bit color
right now and it's you can see that I
have what's called a palette here you
want to make sure that all the sprites
that you create for your game for your
game use the same palette and basically
what that means is you know every color
that I'm using here has to be defined in
a certain position in this grid so to
speak and every single sprite that I
create needs to follow this same palette
or else when you load the palette into
the game art when you load that sprite
into the game the colors are going to be
totally wrong because the palette that
you use to create the the sprite is
different from the palette that the game
has so use that's something that you
want to take care of in all honesty you
can almost assume that most of the
people that are running your game
probably have the ability to run 16-bit
high color I know not everyone does and
so if you want for the broadest audience
you want to create you know the lowest
bit color game that you can create 8-bit
color but most audiences are going to be
able to run 16-bit color that's just
something that I wanted to to bring up
you know what before I got into the
sprites of it so that people would be
aware of that when
creating your game it really should be
the first the first thing that you
decide before you ever import any
sprites into your game you know what
what's your color depth is going to be
for your game so well I'll see you guys
in the next video where we're going to
load up the sprites and create create
our views and assign the views to the
character Sammy and basically put Sammy
to life he'll be he'll be animating his
walking and we'll animate his speech for
you too so you can see his head bob up
and down when he talks so I'll see you
guys in the next video
this video we'll be talking about
creating a new game and creating a
character for that game
along the way we'll will touch on views
and sprites so I've loaded up the AGS
editor and the first thing that it asks
is what we want to do so we want to
either start a new game continuing and
continue an existing game or continue a
recently edited being in this case we're
going to start a new game so I select
that click continue we get the start new
game wizard I'm going to select next and
then we're given three options for
what's the template of the game we want
to create we can either create a default
game or you can select an empty game or
a verb coin so we're going to select a
default game because what what that
gives us it gives us a few graphics on
and a few gooeys that we're going to use
in the game so we'll just kind of
piggyback off of the default games
graphics and things like that so select
the default game select next it asks for
the name of the game in this case we're
going to say Sammy's quest it asks for
the file name of the game which will
just call Sammy's quest also and then it
asks for what folder we want to create
it in which the default folder is your
Documents folder which is fine for me so
I'm going to say finish and that does a
few things now just right away we
haven't done anything but created the
game and already we have a runnable game
we can actually run the game it doesn't
do much but I'll go ahead and click run
and move this window over so that you
can see it and immediately we see that
we have a game that we can play and the
first thing I want to say is ignore I
know that you see on the video you see
actually two mouse cursors when I'm
moving the mouse cursor around you see
sort of a stickman figure and then on
top of that you see Windows cursor
ignore the Windows cursor that's on top
that's something that camstudio which is
my screen capturing program that's what
it put put on top of the mouse cursor
which Sammy's quit which AGS is is
trying to draw so so sorry about that
there's really not a whole lot I can do
about that but the cursor that we're
looking for is the one that's changing
right now as I'm right-clicking that's
the game's cursor
so already we see that we have you know
our character and we have a blank sort
of a black screen we can cause the
character to walk around by just
clicking on you know different spots in
the window across the top we have a gray
status bar and then if I move the mouse
all the way up to the top we have our
icon bar with our our game interactions
our current item a save and restore
buttons which actually work you can save
and restore the game right now if you
want to and then there's an exit button
and a Help button and all these buttons
work and that's without having to touch
a thing
a piece of code from from the game
editor at all so that's really good
functionality that we have right away
right out of the box so I'm going to
click on quit exit the game so the first
thing that we want to do is create our
character let's create Sami so what we
do is we go over to characters the
characters option in the project tree
double-click it to expand it and we have
one character and that's the character
we just saw in the game that was the
default character his name is Roger so
if you double click on him you see that
his real name down here on the
properties window is Roger I'm actually
going to turn him into Sami so I'm going
to change his real name from Roger to
Sami I'm going to change a script name
from see ego to see Sandi the script
name is the name that will we will refer
to this character as in our scripting
when we get to scripting a little later
on so the C is just a syntax meaning
this is a character object and then
Sammy is the name of the object
typically this will be the same as the
real name it's just that the script name
cannot contain spaces I can only contain
letters numbers and I think an
underscore character um now if you if
you move up a little bit you'll see
these things called views and what what
a view is simply just a collection of
sprites or a collection of graphics that
create an animation now just use the
word sprite their sprite is simply just
a graphic it's just a picture so if you
have for example if I click on animate
here on the left hand side we have as
normal view this character of normal
view and if I click animate that will
animate the characters normal view
actually caused him to start walking
that this right here is called a view
it's just the series of sprites that
make up an animation so to create a view
we want to create a view of Sammy will
will need to need to have a view well to
have a view we need to have sprites so
I'm going to scroll it up to the sprites
section of the project tree and I'm
going to double click on it and here we
have the default sprites that are built
into the game we have a blue Cup two two
versions of a key and then another
object that's used in the demo game and
if we click on the defaults folder here
we have the rest of the objects or the
rest of the sprites that are used in the
demo game including the character the
sprites for Roger scrolling down we have
all the icons across the top of the
screen here we have the mouse cursor
graphics and we have the up and down
arrow basically everything that you see
on the screen is a sprite or some kind
of picture file and some kind of bitmap
that that was created but you have to
put into the game so what we want to do
is is load up our own sprites and I'm
actually going to do that in the next
video so oh but first sorry I wanted to
mention a couple things before I go into
the next video I have a little bit of
time left on this one I wanted to
mention what the views are I want to
just to kind of show what these views
are first of all if we go into the views
here on the project tree and
double-click the view one we actually
see a set of views and this is the this
again these are the animation frames for
the default character Roger and we have
these things called loops a view is
broken down into loops loops 0 by
default is is for when the character is
facing downward the animation frame 2
when the character is facing downward
Luke 1 is for when the character is
facing to the left Luke 2 is when the
character is facing to the right and
loop 3 is when the character is facing
up those are just the default views that
are the default loops that AGS will use
so in this case we have each frame of
animation for when the character is
walking downward left right and up so if
I click on the show pre
view-button I'll actually be able to see
what about what that looks like and I'll
click animate and this will show me for
Luke zero which is one we have selected
this is the character walking downward
now I just click the up arrow and
that'll show me the next view for Luke
one which is the character walking to
the left Luke two is the character
walking to the right and loop three is
the character walking up now you notice
this pink color here that doesn't show
up in the in what you see in fact
typically the the color around the
character in this case is black the
blackness that you see around the
character typically that's going to be
this magenta color this pink color but
basically what that does is that that is
a transparent color that ends up being a
transparent color that you can see
through that color when when you see it
in the game the sprites that I'll show
in the next video are actually going to
be every one of them is surrounded by
this pink color and basically that's
just again that's just what is standard
for for transparent colors so that's the
reason that you can see you can see this
character walking but you don't see
what's you don't see what's you you
actually do see what's behind the
character in this case in this case they
used black but typically again you use
this magenta color so that's the reason
that you see that but that's what a view
is I just wanted to go ahead and explain
what a view was and what loops were
I go into the next video I wanted to say
a few things about sprite when you're
creating your sprites you or actually
when you first create your game you want
to really decide on whether or not you
want your game what color debts you want
to run your game and you have a couple
of options if you go into your general
settings of your game you have the very
first item here says setup and it says
color depth and by default it's set to
16-bit high color which and that allows
you to have up to 65,000 colors if you
wanted more than that you could change
this setting to 32-bit color and that
will allow you to have sixteen point
seven million colors but you know if you
don't want if you don't need that many
colors you can change it to 8-bit color
8-bit color allows you to have any of
256 colors the thing to note though if
you ever go to 8-bit color is that at
that point you have to start worrying
about what's called your palette your
color palette and you can get to your
color palette by going over to colors in
your project tree I'm going to double
click there now and I'm an 8-bit color
right now and it's you can see that I
have what's called a palette here you
want to make sure that all the sprites
that you create for your game for your
game use the same palette and basically
what that means is you know every color
that I'm using here has to be defined in
a certain position in this grid so to
speak and every single sprite that I
create needs to follow this same palette
or else when you load the palette into
the game art when you load that sprite
into the game the colors are going to be
totally wrong because the palette that
you use to create the the sprite is
different from the palette that the game
has so use that's something that you
want to take care of in all honesty you
can almost assume that most of the
people that are running your game
probably have the ability to run 16-bit
high color I know not everyone does and
so if you want for the broadest audience
you want to create you know the lowest
bit color game that you can create 8-bit
color but most audiences are going to be
able to run 16-bit color that's just
something that I wanted to to bring up
you know what before I got into the
sprites of it so that people would be
aware of that when
creating your game it really should be
the first the first thing that you
decide before you ever import any
sprites into your game you know what
what's your color depth is going to be
for your game so well I'll see you guys
in the next video where we're going to
load up the sprites and create create
our views and assign the views to the
character Sammy and basically put Sammy
to life he'll be he'll be animating his
walking and we'll animate his speech for
you too so you can see his head bob up
and down when he talks so I'll see you
guys in the next video
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