A downloadable tool

HintsHighlight is a module for AGS (Advanture Game Studio) engine.

This module adds an overlay which highlights all the visible and clickable objects, hotspots and charactes.

After adding this module to a game, players can use this features when they wish to avoid "pixel hunting" and need a hint to progress with the game.

It is highly configurable please see the documentation in the README page and the source code for details. Here is a link to the repo.

Note: this module is compatible with AGS 3.5 and above. 

More information
Published 1 day ago
StatusReleased
CategoryTool
Authorartium_n
GenreAdventure
Tagsadventure-game-studio, Point & Click

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Link to Github release page
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Install instructions

There are three ways of adding this module to a project. This list is ordered by increasing complexity:

  1. Import an .scm file ("Explore Project -> Right Click on Scripts -> Import Script.... Get it from the Releases section on Github.
  2. Create an empty script called HintsHighlight through engines interface, download the source from this repository and finally copy the downloaded script over the empty one.
  3. Create an empty script called HintsHighlight through engines interface and delete it from windows explorer, clone this repository, create a hard link from the cloned files to your games folder.

The basic functionality of the module does not require any additional changes. Run the game and press the default key (KEY_FOR_DISPLAYING_HINTS, set to SPACE by default) to see the hints.

Hints will not be displayed for disabled hotspots, non clickable characters, non clickable objects and non visible objects.

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