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Tutorial 1

How to Create Your Own AGI Adventure Game

For this tutorial you will need AGI Studio and Picedit both available at http://agisci.cjb.net


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Step 4: Drawing the First Picture

Now you will need to draw a picture for the first room with Picedit. Download the Priority band .pcx file for this step. once you have unzipped the .pcx file into your picedit/AGI Studio directory, make sure that picedit is in the same directory as AGI Studio. The Right Click on picedit.exe and edit the program properties so that it looks like this.

Picedit.exe pribands.pcx

Now click on apply.

Once you have closed the properties for Picedit go back to AGI Studio and click on the Picedit button

PICEDIT

When Picedit has loaded press F10 and You will see the priority lines.

Now draw your picture using the tools at the bottom of the screen.

 

This is what your picture should look something like.

After I had added priorities.

Draw the priorities by pressing tab and switching between the two views. For a more full explanation of priorities click here. I do not know where this document came from, I just found it in my picedit directory therefore the links will not work.

Make the edges of the water Priority 2.

Save the image as PICTURE.002

Exit Picedit.

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