Novelty alpha released!

[yummy]

Hehe Monele, check the support and Suggestions thread in the forum Sin opened forthis purpose. You simply have to drag and drop the nvz file to get your build run.

It's fun to read your post because you have nearly the same suggestions as me XD

[monele]

Haha, indeed . Now if this doesn't prove these are priority problems! xD. Anyway, I'm switching to the official forums for this
EDIT : Oh and... your demo is terribly cute XD... Silly fun!

[Sin]

Here is an update:
http://www.visualnovelty.com/files/nove ... date_1.zip

Bugs fixed:
- Stand-alone not exporting properly.
- Action window not being properly locked while playing.
- Script comment bug ("//self.$somevalue")

Changes:
- New objects are placed in the center of the scene rather than at (0,0)
- Fade action can now wait.
- Disabled having to press Ctrl to resize text objects.
- Renamed Editor.exe to Novelty.exe

I'm sorry of the documentation isn't clear enough. Needless to say it was rushed. I will continue working on it and write more tutorials this coming week.

Jake: You can pan by holding down the middle mouse button, but scrollbars have crossed my mind.

The issues with windows behaving weirdly after docking and them not remembering their sizes is a bug in one of the libraries I'm using (wxWidgets).
I have the means to go in and fix some of them myself if push comes to shove (it being open source) but I'm hoping they will be fixed in versions of the library itself.

..and regarding the mascot, thank Ren. She designed her.

[yummy]

Ufufu, I just played around and made a small demo. It's not something great so don't expect much. I tried to tell how to use the editor.
Curiously I have no sound but oh well. De-rar and play.
Have fun!

edit: The lil' demo is completed. Still no sound but as Sin pointed out, that might be an engine side issue.

[Samu-kun]

Hey, that's actually pretty good! Now, if only I can get rollback to work... Also, the text appears to stop fading in once you get to the school. ._.;

[Sin]

Curiously I have no sound but oh well.

Yeah the audio code is borked and is asking to be replaced. I said so in the release notes.

When you save the stand-alone, all of the assets are compressed into a single file (.nvz) and the audio engine can't play audio from a .nvz, yet.

To get audio to play in the stand-alone you need to include the original (uncompressed) audio files in their correct subfolders.
For instance: Novelty\Assets\Song.mp3 -> Stand-alone folder\Assets\Song.mp3

Btw, I'm really glad you're getting into the spirit of using Novelty. You have no idea how weird it is for me to finally see a Novelty game that I didn't make myself xD

[sake-bento]

Sweeeeet. I'm definitely gonna give this a run.

[elmedir]

Every time I try to launch the program I get a 'This application has failed to start because the application configuration is wrong. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.' message, no matter which executable I use. Any ideas?

[Sin]

Every time I try to launch the program I get a 'This application has failed to start because the application configuration is wrong. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.' message, no matter which executable I use. Any ideas?

Try downloading and running this:
http://www.visualnovelty.com/files/vcredist_x86.exe
(Visual studio c++ 2005 redistributable)

If that doesn't work, download this and extract the files to your novelty folder:
http://www.visualnovelty.com/files/msvc80.zip

[Blue123]

Hmm, "Application failed to start because d3dx9_37.dll was not found". Not sure how this happened, but I fixed it by downloading and putting said DLL inside the novelty folder.

[sciencewarrior]

Blue in your case you'll need to install DirectX 9.

[Sin]

Hmm, "Application failed to start because d3dx9_37.dll was not found". Not sure how this happened, but I fixed it by downloading and putting said DLL inside the novelty folder.

This is because you haven't installed the latest version of DirectX 9 (June 2008). The full update is 80 megs so people asked me to put up a link to that one dll because it's usually the only thing that's needed.

You should put it in Windows\System32, not the Novelty folder.

PS. Just to clarify on DirectX (not related to this post in particular). DirectX 9 and DirectX 10 are two different things (the latter being Vista only) which is why you still have to update DirectX 9 even though you might have 10 already.

[Blue123]

Arrfgghgahaaohaffrafha Nooby mistake. Sorry.

[Mikan]

I got it to work in XP.

o_o it's looking pretty great.
I wish there were a lot more button-icons at the top though to do all sorts of things. It seems everything is hidden away.


But still, I like it a lot, since it has a nice UI.

[Sin]

I wish there were a lot more button-icons at the top though to do all sorts of things. It seems everything is hidden away.

I'll make a note of that. I will try to expose more features without making the UI too cluttered at the same time.