Getting the most out of MS Agents
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Here are some tips to getting the most of the new ms agent support, and organizing a zoo of msagents for mirc, and putting on a mirc play.

·enable an agent for yourself, by setting %mc_agent_char_mynick to a valid agent file  
·use the /msagent_rolecall command to line up all agents on the screen  
·turn bubbles on or off with %mc_agent_options "-b on" or "-b off"  
·turn sound effects on or off with the -e switch  
·set the hidden option "-h off" off to make the characters stay on screen even when you minimize mirc  
·find some good agents at http://allprographics.com/agent/chars.htm and http://www.agentry.net/MSAgents.asp  
·it's ok to use the same character to speak for different people, but you cant have 2 instances of the same character on the screen simultaneuously. to do that, you need to go to windows/msagent/chars and make copies of your .acs agent files, and give them new names, like merlin2.acs, merlin3.acs, etc.  
·if you use the %mc_agent_talkoptions swicth -u (set by default), then you can alter talk speed from the mirc alt-O->Sounds->Agents->Speech dialog. You can also use the mirc lexicon to translate mispronounced words on smilies.  
·put on a live mirc play and record it with a screen recording tool like flashcam or camtasia.  
·from the mirc alt-O->Sounds->Agents->Speech dialog there is a mirc option to ignore non-text lines. for some reason this seems to kill all text with punctuation, so it should be disabled.