AGS 2.72 Final 2 - World Cup Edition

Hammerite · Wed 19/04/2006 13:37:34

i know its a tad off topic but when is AGS 2.72 going to be completely finished and also, when are you gonna make AGS 3

strazer · Wed 19/04/2006 13:47:01

The official response is probably "When it's finished", but looking at past releases should give you an estimate:

VERSION 2.71, December 2005
VERSION 2.7, May 2005
VERSION 2.62, November 2004
VERSION 2.61, May 2004
...

Campusanis · Wed 19/04/2006 16:32:18

The mathematically correct answer would thus be:
2.72: This May
AGS 3: April 2010

Hope this helped

Hammerite · Wed 19/04/2006 18:42:43

What will be likely changed between AGS 2 and AGS 3
sorry to be offtopic

strazer · Wed 19/04/2006 18:55:57

I think a complete rewrite was mentioned at some point. But since AGS 3 is a long way off, it's impossible to say for sure what will change.

Please keep on topic from now on.

Layabout · Thu 20/04/2006 14:48:53

AGS 3 was made a few months ago, but it took over chris' body and made ROBOCHRIS...

Wait, this really isnt the place to be off topic...

strazer · Thu 20/04/2006 22:03:46

CJ, you might want to take a look at this thread in the Beginners Forum. A user reported a weird crash with v2.72. Maybe you can make sense of it.

Pumaman · Mon 08/05/2006 20:53:00

QuoteWell it's odd because object[0].ManualScaling=true; compiles and the ManualScaling appears in the auto complete but you get the error

Script link failed: Runtime error: unresolved import 'Object::get_ManualScaling'

Oops, that shouldn't be in the autocomplete. Sorry about that, I'll remove it.

(Edit by strazer: AGS v2.72 RC 1: * Removed Object.ManualScaling and Object.Scaling from autocomplete, since they do not actually exist)

QuoteCJ, you might want to take a look at this thread in the Beginners Forum. A user reported a weird crash with v2.72. Maybe you can make sense of it.

Bit strange, I'll have to keep an eye out for anything like that happening again.

Pumaman · Sat 13/05/2006 23:06:55

Ok, RC 1 is now up, which adds a few bits and bobs.

SSH · Mon 15/05/2006 16:29:52

Code: ags


---------------------------
Illegal exception
---------------------------
An exception 0xC0000005 occured in ACWIN.EXE at EIP = 0x0044C71B ; program pointer is -42, ACI version 2.72.913, gtags (2039,18)

AGS cannot continue, this exception was fatal. Please note down the numbers
above, remember what you were doing at the time and notify CJ on the Tech
forum.

in Bones (line 72)
from XML (line 108)
from XML (line 197)
from Global script (line 68)

Bones line 72 is:

Code: ags


Ã,Â  if (this.ds!=null) this.ds.Delete();

possibly significant is that this is occuring during game_start after some debug messages were displayed with Display (without a room loaded)

this.ds is a DynamicSprite, btw.

Also, I've noticed some strange behaviour with Strings during game_start, too. Its as if the managed objecet garbage collection isn't quite initialised properly or something...

Pumaman · Mon 15/05/2006 19:55:22

Can you upload an example that causes this crash?

SSH · Mon 15/05/2006 21:59:33

Yes, I've PM-ed the link

Pumaman · Tue 16/05/2006 23:09:57

Thanks, I'll look into it.

In the meantime, I've discovered that GUI import/export is broken in RC 1, so don't use it if you'll be doing any GUI importing/exporting. I'll get it fixed for RC 2.

(Edit by strazer: AGS v2.72 RC 2: * Fixed GUI import/export which broke on RC 1.)

Pumaman · Sat 27/05/2006 21:11:59

Ok, I've tracked down your problem to a bug in AGS, whereby it will crash if you call DynamicSprite.Delete from within game_start. I'll get it fixed.

(Edit by strazer: AGS v2.72 RC 2: * Fixed crash if a dynamic sprite was deleted in game_start)

By the way SSH, I noticed in your Bones::Swap method some comments that you were getting wierd crashes trying to swap pointers -- if this is the case, please report it as a bug so that I can look into it.

AJA · Sun 28/05/2006 00:34:31

I'm not sure if this has been reported yet, but Mouse.SetPosition seems to divide the coordinates by two when the game is run with a 2x graphic filter. (The game is 640x400 and I ran the game in 320x200 with the 2x filter.)

Gilbert · Sun 28/05/2006 08:46:40

That's probably not a bug, no matter the game's in 640x400 or 320x200, it's game screen resolution is always 320x200.

edmundito · Sun 28/05/2006 13:01:39

Uhm, is there a reason why the RC doesn't have a setup.exe file?

strazer · Sun 28/05/2006 14:10:41

Beta versions only contain files changed from the latest stable version. You have to extract them over a copy of v2.71.
But AFAIK the editor itself doesn't contain a setup.exe anyway? Isn't it generated for each game in the compiled folder?

edmundito · Sun 28/05/2006 18:00:31

It is usually generated based on the setup.exe file provided I thought. And the problem is that, if I'm right, this version contains a different setup.exe with the graphic filters and all that jazz...

AJA · Sun 28/05/2006 19:29:39

Quote from: Gilbot V7000a on Sun 28/05/2006 08:46:40
That's probably not a bug, no matter the game's in 640x400 or 320x200, it's game screen resolution is always 320x200.

Yes, but the mouse coordinates are in 320x200. It's obviously some sort of a bug since it works perfectly in 320x200 with no filters and in its original resolution 640x400 without filters.

And, yeah, the setup.exe isn't generated anymore.

AGS 2.72 Final 2 - World Cup Edition

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