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agentorangeguy

That was a good write up man, very informative. If only we can find someone to really do an in depth dive into the combat fixes and make it better than the original haha. At least implement all of the combat modes.

agentorangeguy

If you want a situation where said animal only attacks if you come near, you could set it on "Patrol" as either evil or chaotic, and have path eggs that are set to "Combat Near". Path eggs are a bit tricky, somewhere on these forums you might be able to find a list of what each q...

agentorangeguy

From what I understand, Dexterity is how often they can attack, Combat seems to affect how many hits they land. There is probably something in the source somewhere that shows the actual calculations

agentorangeguy

I don't know about U5, but I know that this song was used on the SNES version of Ultima 6. It would play if you tried to use a harpsichord in taverns and stuff.

agentorangeguy

Here's why I say Deadeye was talking about Selena; she tried at least three times to kill the Avatar and failed: 1. Seducing Shmed to kill the Avatar during and after the Knight's test via traps and finally Shmed trying himself. 2. Getting her sister Lydia in on the plot to kill the Avatar via poiso...

agentorangeguy

Ok so reading up on it, I'm pretty sure Deadeye is talking about Selina. She's the only one of Batlin's henchmen that really had much interaction with the Avatar, trying to get you to abandon the party so she can kill you.

agentorangeguy

I always thought Batlin was talking about Palos, since Palos was with Batlin when you find them in Shamino's castle. It's been forever since I've played all the way through though.

agentorangeguy

Nice, what kind of work are you doing?

agentorangeguy

I've never been able to get that to work at all for some reason even with the older version of GIMP, it would be handy though!

agentorangeguy

That would be an interesting approach for sure, probably much easier than having to rebuild it.

agentorangeguy

Yes the kite was in the original game too. I've thought about Dawn and how it could be implemented (For reasons.... ;) )and my thought would be a ton of usecode eggs to build the houses piece by piece, and when Dawn isn't there, just have the "Dont Render" flags set on all the npcs. So may...

agentorangeguy

U7 does not keep track of moon phases or wind direction. The kite was in Rudyom's house i think, and it just has the flying animations. As for UIII in exult... moon phases and and wind direction could probably be done by usecode, initialized when you start the game. probably script it off the Avatar...

agentorangeguy

Is there an easy way to import the in-hand offsets for npcs/monsters in Exult studio, rather than manually doing it by hand??

agentorangeguy

KC, I've been able to do this with some success. I have a few new npcs using this style in my mod. I use Gimp. I first have my "template" which is the oval that I made blank, then I scale up or down the face in another file. I add transparency, then "trim" the extra pixels off th...

agentorangeguy

If there is some way to detect keyboard input and make it do something, I'm sure it could be done.

agentorangeguy

does the U7 android thing work?

agentorangeguy

Any luck with this, Dr Code?

agentorangeguy

Working on it as we speak!

agentorangeguy

Any luck contacting Marzo , or Dr Code? or anyone who could fix this?

agentorangeguy

the idea to fish up oysters and pick the pearls from them would be easy to do. make a closed oyster shape, open oyster shape with pearl, then open and empty oyster shape. It would be easy to code - double clicking the closed fished up oyster shape would switch it to open, maybe a random chance to ge...

agentorangeguy

you can double click an egg, then create a new egg, and it will default to the previous egg contents/attributes

agentorangeguy

We must summon Marzo!

agentorangeguy

Excellent, so i wasn't crazy haha.

I remember the egg from Penumbra's in the original closing all gumps when you'd place the object to give the sparkly effect. I just tried it and it didn't work as it should, so yeah something definitely had changed over the years and got broken

agentorangeguy

anyone know whats up with it?

agentorangeguy

ES settings for the egg:

Something On
probability 100
checked autoreset
Distance 1
Function number 0xbe8
quality 0

I can't seem to ever find where the stdout file goes to so I just use party barks when I need to make sure if something is working haha

Email sent with the code in question

agentorangeguy

something basic like

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if (event == EGG)
{
    UI_close_gumps();


}

with the usecode egg set to "something on". If an object is on the egg and removed, it should activate the code, and it *should* close the gumps, but doesnt.

agentorangeguy

They should work up on EGG event too, they used to. One of the eggs I had for my mod for an egg triggered by "Something On" used to close the gumps when it was triggered, but it no longer does that.

agentorangeguy

Try the egg in front of Penumbra's house maybe? in U7

agentorangeguy

I'm trying to make a usecode egg with "something on", that once you remove the object on the egg, or put something on it, all gumps should close. In the past this has worked, but now it doesn't...? the DOUBLECLICK event seems to work if you use UI_close_gumps but the EGG event doesn't seem...

agentorangeguy

anyone else having trouble with getting the UI_close_gumps(); intrinsic working?? it doesn't appear to do anything anymore

agentorangeguy

There was something in exult implemented that sort of created a paused combat situation where you could control who targets what. You go to the misc options and under combat options, turn on space pauses. Then during normal combat, press the space bar then alt- right click on your party member, then...

agentorangeguy

What does the plugin do, actually? I never figured it out

agentorangeguy

interesting, thanks Dominus! I was trying to find out what some of them meant but couldn't figure some of them out

agentorangeguy

In the ES shape edit menus, there are a few options I've always wondered what they were.. Anyone know? they are: - Strange - Occludes - Is Locked (for doors? chests?) - Is Mirror - On fire - Extradimensional Storage Extra at the bottom: NPC Flags Content rules Frame HPs Any idea on what these are an...

agentorangeguy

Lighting is a bit buggy in Exult sometimes I think. Like it will be bright as day, and transition straight to night sometimes, or vice versa.

agentorangeguy

I tried another blank mod, and it worked. I guess there was some disconnect between the open mod and ES, but it seems to be working okay for a new mod.

agentorangeguy

Yeah this is definitely a bug, I opened an older version on my older comp and it worked just fine, i was able to add, delete, clone chunks. Something got broken in ES along the way :/

agentorangeguy

it's from the download page, and so is my Exult installation

agentorangeguy

I have both the latest versions of ES and Exult, still not working... it's broken somehow.

agentorangeguy

Hmm mine is 1.5.0git is what it says at the bottom right? I can't remember the last time I updated it

agentorangeguy

I was playing around with a fresh map and trying to clone chunks to edit them, but cloning, adding, or deleting chunks doesn't seem to work anymore. Was this disabled? It would be really helpful if it were re-implemented :D I think KC mentioned it before, that maybe the best solution for the map gar...

agentorangeguy

Yeah it seems that the EA takeover was impending at the time, at least from what I remember, hence the "Guardian" taking over with EA, the Sphere, Cube, Tetrahedron resembling the logo... etc

agentorangeguy

I've never noticed it until recently. I made the storm cloak and I couldn't get it on his back without a lot of messing around with it

agentorangeguy

No mercy!! Sweep the leg!!

Maybe certain combat types should go in for the kill when they're down, attack weakest, berzerk maybe?

agentorangeguy

Anyone else notice something kind of wonky going on with them? For example, I should be able to put a two handed sword on the Avatar's back but it just goes back into his hands. It seems the only way it will go on the back is if his hands are full. Same thing with cloaks I've noticed. Is this a bug?

agentorangeguy

working on it

agentorangeguy

Doing some playthroughs and testing, there are a lot of issues I wish could be fixed in Exult's combat system. I know the original wasn't great, but maybe it could be improved a tad with Exult. Some issues I've noticed recently: -Monster AI seems to always swarm the Avatar rather than focus on other...

agentorangeguy

combat is less aggravating since DrCode did some minor changes to it (to prevent ranged weaponry using npcs from crowding the target and shooting point blank) but combat could use some more love. I've not seen the dissappearing items bug yet

agentorangeguy

oh wait, i was right... it IS track 18

agentorangeguy

What are the chances we could get this de-hardcoded so we have more ability to alter how it's handled? Specifically, what guards show up and where. In BG I think its the standard guard, then another shape for the Trinsic guards. If you code those shapes specifically, you can change how they handle a...

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