1. Possible with Lua using object / animation position, object rotation field & mouse position.2. Special regions? In regards to characters walking, running, crouching, jumping, swimming etc, that is what character outfits are for. Character movement & actions are essentially animations, even in engines like Game Maker Studio, it is the animations that provide the suggestion of what is happening on screen to the person playing the game. Sure gravity & movement also come into that, but you get the general idea.3. Simple battle? Questionable, but probably possible with action parts, animations & maybe with a bit of Lua script - may even be possible without scripting, but who knows.4. VS is not designed for non-adventure (point & click games) because it is a specialist engine designed exactly for point & click adventure games, but sure, in theory, it is possible to use it for other genres, but there are engines more suited to other genres, than trying to use VS to make them.5. Can AGS really do that? It's not exactly hard to achieve that in VS either. Just create another object with the image / animation inversed. If it's a water reflection then you could even apply one of the shader ripple effects to the object containing the reflection. A true mirror effect on the other hand, where it displays your character in them, would probably be possible with a bit of work, but I assume that that would require a bit of work in any engine.6. Possible with either the in-editor key actions & conditions or with the Lua keyboard event handler; even though the engine isn't designed for keyboard control of players, it is still possible, but would require work to correctly calculate movement angles.7. That's what the way system section of the editor is for. You can define the places that the character can walk by defining borders & paths. You can create multiple way systems for each scene & swap them out as needed.The only thing I am going to say is this: Personally I don't care whether or not you decide to use Visionaire Studio, or another engine. It's entirely up to you & what you feel comfortable making your game with. Visionaire Studio is [b]exactly[/b] what it is, [i]no more, no less[/i]. All engines have their strengths & weaknesses - all are far from perfect.

Because menu scenes can be used for other things like mini-games, loading screens, credits etc. I suppose it would make sense to allow for inactive & active image / animation states but what if the developer wants to use a different method, such as: changing the opacity of the button, or changing between a static & animated button, or apply an openGL shader effect to said button on mouse over / out, etc... The current method is more flexible.If you wanted to create a quick & dirty snap between images on mouse over / out then you could create a single animation containing 2 frames; the inactive state & the active state. In the first frame add an execute a script action part containing...[code]ActiveAnimations["anim_name"].AnimationFirstFrame = 1ActiveAnimations["anim_name"].AnimationLastFrame = 1[/code]... the rest is simple enough. Copy / paste the execute a script action you just created above into a on mouse enter & on mouse leave action part for each of the buttons. You should change the values in the on mouse enter action part from 1 to 2. You also need to make sure the animations are set to infinite loop & that you have assigned the animation to the properties tab. You don't have to do this, of course. It's just an alternative method for the condition & 2 objects method, as it only requires one object, instead of 2 & a condition. Plus you don't have to waste time aligning the images in the 2 objects together.

Possible via the config.ini. [i]see [url=http://wiki.visionaire-tracker.net/wiki/Ini_File]here[/url][/i].Or via the [url=http://wiki.visionaire-tracker.net/wiki/SetWindowBrightness]setWindowBrightness()[/url] function.Or via the openGL shader @ [url=http://wiki.visionaire-tracker.net/wiki/ShaderLightness_(CMS)]Lightness[/url] & [url=http://wiki.visionaire-tracker.net/wiki/ShaderContrast_(CMS)]Contrast[/url]. ([i]shader toolkit script is required[/i]).

I had a quick look at the shader toolkit and shaderFollowCharacter() seems indeed the way to go, but yeah, there is the viewport overflow problem with the backgrounds. I'll see if I can manage to modify the function to not go over the limit and behave like the standard camera :)

Okay, I see you already figured it out. We'll handle the particle system later, the shader toolkit should work, tested that very intensive. If you got dumps, please send them to me ;)Also if it's a submission for the competition and your program crashes, we will fix it and you won't get negative points by that ;)