Yes, your feedback is extremely usefull. Thank you very much!

I've updated the CHRMAK guide, and tried to explain everything in a bit more detail. Hopefully it'll make a bit more sense to you and others who aren't as familiar with the utils as we are. I didn't touch hotspots because frankly, the reason I used zeromus' explination is because I don't really understand them all that well myself. ^_^; So maybe overkill or zip (*wink* *wink* *nudge* *nudge) could take a look at that section and see if they can explain them better.

Thanks again!

Heh yay now i understand it... lol the d_walk thing signifies the direction they walk and what to use when you stop moving. See it makes more sense now. Thanks Rysen! Now to answer Zip's question...

xres 800
yres 600
automax 0
windowmode 1

for a newb (don't worry i understand what that means) they might ask hunh what does the xres 800 and the yres 600 mean than explain that the xres and yres signify the key word to control the resolution of the game, than explain what the numbers mean. After that you could show some examples of how the xres or the yres would come into play or something. Than go into detail of what the rest mean. Now for the next program...

void autoexec()
{
while (!b3)
{
RectFill(0, 0, ImageWidth(screen), ImageHeight(screen), 0, screen);
PrintCenter(ImageWidth(screen)/2, ImageHeight(screen)/2, screen, 0, "Hello World!");
ShowPage();
}
Exit("Bye!");
}

I understand that in the next quote you explain it but as a newb I'm not gonna understand what anything means " what does the void autoexec() mean. What purpose do the { } have? While (!b3), hunh? You could go into a little more detail explaining what does that mean. Than in the explaination "control loop?" "void means we are not trying to return any value from the function man this is all confusing" Zip it's all natural for you but to mean it just looks like a bunch of lines with gaboldigok smahsed in there. It's like you said "I've had several potential newbies come to the #vergehelp channel for clarifications (which I was only limited help with), and gawd knows how many just wander by, look at the shoddy state of the docs and wander off again." I hope that helps... stayed tune for my next post programs 2-4! See ya there! Lol

*By the way this is for Rysen back in the Verge 2 days there was a game released called Rysen's ranch it looked like a Harvest Moon game so i thought it was pretty cool. When i went to download it though both links didn't work. Yesterday i went to your site to download it again it downloaded pretty normal except when i went to open it it didnt work. (why am I cursed with such a lousy comp!!!)

Heheh. Actually i tried downloading it like 6 or 7 times today still no luck meh... ah well. For some reason the file won't open when i click open.

Do you need a zip extractor?

The day this place becomes unfriendly again is the day I go righteous on the trolls' collective asses.

Quote:Originally posted by Kreplyn

No im good i got Winrar... but it when i click on open it just won't find the directory i believe. But it's wierd it just won't open
You might want to try Winzip then. I've had trouble with WinRAR being a bit unhelpful with zip files which Winzip will handle perfectly well.

Hrm... I find winrar from rarlabs to be the greatest and best archiving utility known to man.

Where is this zip in question? Perhaps it is corrupt and evil?

I can download, unzip, and run Rysen Ranch very well.

try this:

1) download the file to a directory you know how to find (like your desktop or c:\ or some such)

2) double-click on the file to open winrar.

3) wait a few seconds until the "please register" box pops up, and select 'close'.

4) click on 'extract to...' and just hit 'ok' from there. A new folder will be created in the same location as the zip file. Open up that folder and run verge.exe to play Rysen's game.

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Winrar is good for many reasons, and there are many good tricks you can do with it. However, before you can run, you must walk. Try those steps and feel free to ask for more help if you get stuck.

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Oh, and I was able to perfectly unzip and run Rysen's game as well, using WinRAR.

I was just going to say how bad I feel for the lack of content now that you went through all that trouble to get it working. ^_^;

I'll spend a whole wack of time on the v3 version (where you can leave your farm) and get a new demo out soon starting tomorow...tonight I'm off to the bar to watch an 80's cover band called "The Breakfast Club" :D