Characters Tab

Characters: This is where you can create your characters, outfits & animations etc

Outfits

♠ Edit animation: this shows the animation preview screen, where you can preview, or edit the animation. ♠ Properties>: allows you to edit loop amount, direction, frame delay value, & various playback settings, such as: play forwards, reverse, or random frame selection. ♠ First frame: jump back to the first frame. ♠ Previous frame: jump back 1 frame. ♠ Play animation: allows you to preview the animation. ♠ Next frame: jump forward 1 frame. ♠ Last frame: jump forward to the last frame. ♠ Align character on immediate execution: if checked, current character will automatically face towards any object using immediate execution command ♠ Allow dragging of items from inventory: automatically sets clicked item to hand for quickly using on other objects, items or characters ♠ Always allow to skip active text: if selected then users can skip displayed text during cutscenes with left mouse button ♠ Execute key actions during a dialog: allows or prevents the player from executing key input actions while a dialog is open ♠ Auto hide interfaces in menu: automatically hides all interfaces while a menu scene is open ♠ Keep character images in memory while displaying a menu: saves all character animations, destinations & actions to memory when you open up a menu ♠ Activate pixel effect: activates nearest neighbor interpolation; best used for low resolution games, if desired	Anim seeklast
♠ Active character: this is where you assign the default playable character of your game ♠ Intro movie: add a movie (usually company splash) that will play on game launch (after load screen; if provided) ♠ Fade delay [ms]: default time in milliseconds that it takes to fade between scenes ♠ Scroll speed [pixel/sec]: the speed in which scenes will be scrolled by (higher value equals faster scrolling) ♠ Sprite cache size [mb]: sprite cache size in MB, which stores recently loaded sprites ♠ Speaker sound by panning: - ♠ Text alignment: allows you to set the alignment of spoken text that displays above characters heads ♠ Speaker text alignment: allows you to the set the alignment of narration text ♠ Minification filter: defines the filter to be used for scaling character sprites down; nearest neighbor should only be used for low resolution games ♠ Magnification: defines the filter to be used for scaling character sprites up; nearest neighbor should only be used for low resolution games ♠ Disable interaction during character anim: prevent the player from being able to interact during certain character animations ♠ Object text font: set the font that will be used for displaying object text
♠ Action text: the text that will be displayed for actions; commands, items, objects etc ♠ Display: define how & where the action text should be displayed; if required ♠ Font: define the font which should be used to display the action text ♠ Rectangle: absolutely define a box (position, size) in which the action text should be displayed; only applicable if draw action text inside rectangle option was chosen