Artificial Girl 3----------------------------------
FAQ by Escalation
V1.0
INTRODUCTION
I'm not done with this in case someone is wondering, but much of the necessary info is packed in here like nuts in a snicker.
Okay, so there's several FAQ's out there for this game, they're just hard to find and a bit confusing if you've never dealt with installing and modding this game before. While in the struggle that is installing and playing this game, I vowed to create a FAQ for it to help people like myself. This isn't supposed to explain everything about the game, but most things. For more in-depth info for traits, mods, etc, visit the AG3 wiki @ http://scratchpad.wikia.com/wiki/Artificial_Girl_3. With that, good luck and I hope you understand this.
INSTALLING THE GAME
There are two ways to do this if you're on a US based PC. 1) The easy way, and 2) the hard way. I did it the hard way, of course. It wasn't until after I did it the hard way (through much 50 page forum browsing, blood, sweat and tears) that I saw there was an easy way.
The easy way
Install the all-in-one package that has everything you need (and more) prepackaged in a nice .exe file (between 6-7 gb). Finding the all-in-one package is as easy as going to google, searching for " (Artificial Girl 3) clean all-in-one full." At the time I searched, the link to it was:
http://www.hongfire.com/forum/archive/index.php?t-86353.html
(be sure to join the forum and good rep that guy, because he's cool for doing this).
But alas, silly easy way, who wants that? The hard way is much more time consuming and fun.
The hard way
Chance are you have an ISO of the basic game. Yay. Now you have to mount this iso somehow (which is a process of its own). If you don't know how to mount an ISO, you need to research it.
Some ways are burning it to a CD/DVD then running it from that CD/DVD and you have yourself a game install disk, etc. The better way (that saves money) is to download Daemon Tools (google it:
http://www.daemon-tools.cc/eng/downloads) and virtually mount it. Virtual Mount means that it takes the file and makes it feel and act like a CD drive.
Some notes on installation
You will probably get an error when trying to install the game in some odd symbols that you cannot read. That is because your language settings have to be set to Japanese in order to install this game. Go into your control panel > regional and language options > advanced and select "Japan" in the Language for non-Unicode programs. Click ok when it asks you some stuff about a CD then you'll have to restart your system. Retry the installation and you should be able to continue. When you're done installing the game, make sure to move back to English mode on your PC.
PLAYING THE GAME
There are 2 parts to this game separate from one another. The first is the MAKE and PLAY. Depending on your installation, it can be named something else.
Make
(AG3_Make or JS3_Make)
this is dress up. -If- you play the PLAY portion of this game without doing this first, you will be all alone in a huge world with nothing to do (i.e. wasting time). You HAVE to do this to create the girls to put in your world. You can create several girls, but only have 5 in your world at one time. Not only do you have to custom create your girl, but you have to create her clothing as well. The game comes with several generic (and boring) outfits as examples, but chances are you'll want to dress your girl to better match your style/preferences.
How to make clothes:
Click Create Fashion (or w/e it's translated to) then c$lick Create New. From here, it's pretty much self explanatory. You'll be given a generic model, so go through the different tabs and set the preference of the outfit and its accessorries. When you're done return to the system tab, name the fashion set and filename, then click save. You will now be able to select that outfit if you Return to Main Screen (Rightmost large button at the bottom of the system tab) under Fashion sets. You can click "Show" under the thumbnail of your selected girl to drop her in the tank and "Show" under the thumbnail of the fashion to see it on your girl.
Your girl will need an outfit for each slot. If you have blank splots, she will simply be nude when trying to fullfil that slot's description. The slots are: First, Second, Night, Sleep, Bath, Cute, Sexy and Erotic (in that order).
Play
(AG3_Play or JS3_Play):
Aftering spending several hours playing "designer" it's now time to play with your girls. Double click the _AG3.exe icon and it will bring up the main menu. Click to play with subtitles and it will bring you to another menu. Here you have to add the girls you want to your world. Click her name, click the middle button beneath where the names are listed to add her and her name will become red. Add a few more if you want, then click the button to Play. Once again, depending on how your interface is translated, it might just say play (if it's not translated, it'll be in symbol's you don't understand, but it'll be the big button at the bottom that DOESN'T close the menu and nothing happen. I.e. the button on the right).
Thank god, it works (or if it doesn't, palm > face > head > desk and repeat x3. Then, see Trouble becaues you mucked up). Assuming the best, somehow you got it to work and the game starts of with you laying in a bed. After pressing the arrow buttons and the space bar, you will become VERY confused and wonder if the game is really working. Now there comes in the controls. Unlike normal games, games like this move via button input. I.e. you hold down "W" to walk and use your mouse to "steer" your male character. "S" walks backwards which is good for quickly exiting an area you just ran into. Left clicking causes you to respond to your "!" (i.e. sit, lay, etc) and right clicking has you interact with the girls (i.e. hugging, kissing, etc). Thus the wall of inputs via
http://scratchpad.wikia.com/wiki/Artificial_Girl_3_general_gameplayis as follows:
- Menus -
Esc key: Quit menu (left button quits, right button cancels)
F1: Configuration menu (hopefully this is translated)
- Toggles -
1: Character
2: Weewee
3: Clothes
4: Environment
5: Hand/lip icons
6: Camera center reticle
7: Girls' state/location icons
8: Exclamation mark above your character's head
- Movement -
W - Forward
S - Backward
A - Strafe left
D - Strafe right
E - Sprints while moving
Shift - Walks while moving
- 'Normal' Mode Controls -
Left click: (Environment interaction) Sit, Lie, Lean back (when sitting on chairs & surfaces), enter doors, and go into the next area of the world.
Right click: (Girl interaction), call her to you (Oi!), grab/release hand to follow you (while standing with your right hand close to her left hand), show affection/enter H-mode (while embracing).
From front: Click to hug, click again to Kiss, hold for H-mode.
From behind: Click for brief hug, hold for H-mode.
Call for special H-scenes: When sitting or lying down (only if she's in the mood, read down for more info)
Listen to your girl talk: When sitting/lying beside her if you're close enough. She'll just start talking
Ctrl: Activates camera mode in normal mode
- Camera mode - (in H-mode or while holding ctrl in normal mode)
Left-click hold: Rotate camera
Wheel drag: Camera movement with respect to current camera angle
Right-click + drag up/down: Move camera up/down
Right-click + drag left/right: Move camera in/out
Right-click + left-click + drag up/down: Move camera in/out
Right-click + left-click + drag left/right: Move camera left/right
C: Default
V: Face
B: Chest
N: Lower body
M: Switch between guy and girl (girl has to be in the same area)
Spacebar: First Person View Mode (Not available in H-mode)
F11/PrintScrn: Takes a photo (pictures stored in data/cap directory of installation folder)
SAVING YOUR GAME
To save just lay down in any bed. You get 3 options. If it's not translated for you, the top option sleeps and saves. The middle option sleeps (passes the day) and the bottom option is to not sleep (you just lay there. You can also just press esc).
RELATIONSHIP LEVELS
The icons on the bottom left of the screen represent each of your girls' locations (symbol) and moods (color). There are four colors of relation (blue, green, red, yellow). You will start off Blue. Each color has a quantity (with a max of 2000) associated with it. Once you break 1000 points in a category, the color will correspond to the highest category. You get points depending on how you interact with the girl. The colors are:
Blue Icon (Acquaintance):
A blue icon means that she's not comfortable with you hugging or kissing her. You start off with this. You can get here by pissing the girl off or being away from her/ignoring her for long periods of time. The only confirmed way to get a girl to enter an H-scene while in the blue icon is if she has the ecchi/lewd personality trait.
Green Icon (Friend):
The green color means she likes you as a friend. She will allow you to hug her and, when when you get her a bit heated, she will let you kiss and eventually do her. Increases by staying with a girl, hugging her, or taking her hand and traveling around.
Girls have an internal meter that gauge how heated they are. It increases by being around them, sleeping with them, or stripping in front of them. You can tell a girl is heated because she will be blushing (and maybe sweating too.) The position you can do her in will depend on where you will approach her (front, behind, in bed, etc.). She won't leave a room as random as before, and is more likely to stay in the room with you. From what I can tell, this increases the fastest of all the icons, so expect to be in the green with most of your girls. Hugs give huge increases to green (~100) so after ten hugs or so, she should warm up to you. The alternative is to take long walks while holding hands, sit together, and do other "sweet" things. Girls like you to spend time with them, in real life and this game. After all, who wants to just jump to the sex? (see cheats, j/k). But this color raises with most all interaction, so if you have the most points here, you're girl will be green to you (which makes it hard to get her to red). Thankfully, it DOES NOT rise while having sex. Traits augment how many points rise with which activity.
Red Icon (Lover):
The red color indicates that the girl loves you. The girl will allow you to enter an H-scene with her. She will be able to initiate new sex positions such as oral, tit fuck, cow girl, and sitting IF she is blushing red. Chances are this is the color you're like "how do I raise this?!" Like I said, green will not raise during sex but red will. It raises slowly as well. When I tested it with one of my girls, it rose about 7 points every 10 seconds. You need over 1,000 points to this, so that's about 25 minutes worth of sex? This also raises if you sit down on a couch with the girl and she rests her head on your shoulder, gazes into your eyes, etc. Increases by staying with a girl, kissing her while hugging, having sex with her, or if she is lewd, watching her while she is bathing or urinating.
Yellow Icon (Jealous Girl):
The yellow color indicates that the girl in question is jealous of other girls. This CAN be a good thing. This can be invoked when the girl sees you taking actions with other girls. There are also traits and locations in game that can help speed up jealousy. Also, her jealous mood may change to either blue or red in an instant if you hug her or sleep in the same bed with her (this might depend on previous mood levels). This mood is similar to the red mood state since girls who are jealous can initiate sex with you, but only if they are blushing. Increases by staying with exactly 2 girls in the same map/room (if a 3rd enters, jealousy starts dropping again), or when one girl sees you having sex with another.
Positive actions
. Hugging & kissing
. Eating with her: You must be in the dinning room before she finds a seat at the table. She'll say she's hungry, beat her to the kitchen and sit down and she'll serve you.
. Holding her hand and traveling to different locations.
. Sitting on the couch with her: You have to be leaning back in order for any effect to take place. You know you're this . right if she puts her head on your shoulder.
. Sleeping in the same bed as her.
. Sex
Negative actions
. Not interacting with the girl for a prolonged period of time.
. Having her watch you have sex with another girl. (Positive reaction with lewd trait)
. Walking in on her while she urinates. (Positive reaction with lewd trait)
. Walking in on her while she bathes. (Positive reaction with lewd trait)
* With Ilusion Wizzard, you can cheat and set a girl's Red value to 2000 to get all the sex positions). You can also use a trainer, such as Breaker's, to watch/edit values in real time.
* If you're lazy and just want the action you should give her the horny and lewd traits. She'll be up for pretty much anything with relatively little effort.
* A combination of the right or wrong traits can drastically alter the rate her mood changes from every interaction.
MODDING WITH ILLUSION WIZZARD
It really is a lot simpler than it feels at first and more complicated than you would initially think. I thought I could just load it up, highlight my mod on the list and click "apply mod." I did and it gave me back and error... and I was displeased.
First thing you have to do is put the mods in the directory where the wizzard can see it. This directory is ..\AG3\mods wherever you installed the game. If you installed it at C:\illusion, then it will be C:\illusion\AG3\mods. The mod file (or archive) should be a .7z file. If you have winzip, it will whisper for you to unzip it... don't. The Wizzard will do that for you, seek him. But, just leave it like that and make sure its in the "mods" folder. Once your mod is there, fire up Illusion Wizzard and it should be listed in the mods tab beneath the filters you probably won't need to ever use. If you highlight a mod, chances are it will show you previews of the mod in the omnious black box to the right. Before you click that tempting "Apply Mod" button in the bottom left hand corner, you have to set your options.
Click the options tab.
Check "specify AG3 folder manually" and navigate to where the AG3 folder is. For me it's C:\illusion\AG3\
Click the "specify AG3.exe" button to the right of that. Find JS3_Make.exe and select it, press OK.
Go down a line and click the second check box and navigate to the same folder that you did to specify the AG3 folder.
Click the box to the side of that and browse for JS3_Play.exe and choose it (press ok, etc).
Check the box by "skip game selector screen" if you want... I did.
Click Status tab. You should have a green light for Artificial Girl 3 and AG3_Play with "manual setting!" in red. You're good to go.
Go back to mods, highlight a mod and press that sexy "Apply Mod" button from earlier, then sit back and wait for it to apply.
If you DON'T do these steps, you'll probably get some error about your game not being configured right and your mod could not be applied, etc.
TESTING!
You don't get a bonus to RED for making the girl cum
You don't get a bonus to RED for coming together
If you hug her and she pushes you away, you lose up to 100 points in green
People walking in on you does not seem to decrease any values
If the girl is not moaning, she's gaining 0 points to her orgasm
Sometimes the girl may get stuck on 71 points when you're doing her. You MAY have to pull out and finger her until she cums on some instances.
Standing and holding hands builds up eechi better than sitting
Kissing sends up Friendship points in some cases
TROUBLE!
Q: I receive an error after playing the game for a few minutes or when I try to sleep/save. And/or I get an error when trying to save in the Make mode.
A: Chances are you did the same thing I did. I'm not sure what it was, but you can remedy it by using the JS version of the game rather than the translated version. This error also seems to go away if you upgrade to v1.50. Remember that v1.03 is the highest upgrade for the normal game. You'll need the add-on (expansion) in order to upgrade to v1.50.
Q: I can't get the Dark Wizzard to install the mods. I get an error about the game not being correctly configured and the mod cannot be applied.
A: You have to go into options and set the gamepath. There are four things to set. The folder path, the make path, the play path and ???. Once you do this, you should have the first two "lights" lit up, to advise you're ready to go.
Errors:
"Unhandled exception has occurred in your application. If you click Continue, the application will ignore this error and attempt to continue. If you click Quit, the application will close immediately.
Could not find a part of the path "x:\...\_general\game_profiles."
Translation: Wizzard is in the wrong folder (i.e. you moved it from the correct folder) OR the '_general\game_profiles\' folder wasn't created. Search to see if you have one first and put the Wizzard.exe in the folder that contains the _general folder. It should open after that. Personally, I put my Illusion_Wizzard.exe in C:\illusion\ which contains the AG3 folder and the _general folder.
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